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title: Should I fail in obtaining aid, I will return to die with you.” — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Should I fail in obtaining aid, I will return to die with you.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 18

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Should I fail in obtaining aid, I will return to die with you.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** fail, obtain, return, die · **To what, where:** aid

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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 (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:pg77685:25:18
# text = Should I fail in obtaining aid, I will return to die with you.”
1	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	obtaining	obtain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **obtain** | gerund | I *not said here* | aid |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset aid=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with you | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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