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title: If you behold five lights blazing upon its summit, be assured I am a… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: If you behold five lights blazing upon its summit, be assured I am at hand with succour, and prepare yourselves to sally forth upon the city as I attack the gates. Who acts: you, five lights, I. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. Geor
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 17

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If you behold five lights blazing upon its summit, be assured I am at hand with succour, and prepare yourselves to sally forth upon the city as I attack the gates.

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**Who acts:** you, five lights, I · **What happens:** behold, blaze, assure, be, prepare, sally · **To what, where:** five lights, summit, hand, yourselves, gates

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, five lights, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:25:17
# text = If you behold five lights blazing upon its summit, be assured I am at hand with succour, and prepare yourselves to sally forth upon the city as I attack the gates.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	behold	behold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	blazing	blaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	assured	assure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	succour	succour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
22	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	sally	sally	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	attack	attack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | five lights |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |
| 2 | **blaze** | gerund | five lights *not said here* |  |  | mountain's summit |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon summit=Location |
| 3 | **assure** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S» |
| 4 | **is** | present | I |  |  | hand |  | with succour | tree rules |
| 5 | **prepare** | infinitive |  | yourselves |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **sally** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | upon the city; forth *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **attack** | present | I | the gates |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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