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title: When he had finished, his warriors would fain have severally underta… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had finished, his warriors would fain have severally undertaken the enterprise, and they remonstrated against his exposing himself to such peril; but he was not to be shaken from his purpose. Who acts: Pelistes, warriors. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving,
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 19

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When he had finished, his warriors would fain have severally undertaken the enterprise, and they remonstrated against his exposing himself to such peril; but he was not to be shaken from his purpose.

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**Who acts:** Pelistes, warriors · **What happens:** finish, fain, have, undertake, remonstrate, expose · **To what, where:** enterprise, Pelistes, such peril, purpose

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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 (Pelistes, warriors), 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:pg77685:25:19
# text = When he had finished, his warriors would fain have severally undertaken the enterprise, and they remonstrated against his exposing himself to such peril; but he was not to be shaken from his purpose.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	fain	fain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	severally	severally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	undertaken	undertake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	remonstrated	remonstrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	against	against	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	exposing	expose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	peril	peril	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | Pelistes |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fain** | would | Pelistes's warriors |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | Pelistes's warriors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **undertake** | participle | Pelistes's warriors *not said here* | the enterprise |  |  |  | severally *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enterprise=Eventuality |
| 5 | **remonstrate** | past | warriors *= warrior* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **expose** | gerund | Pelistes | Pelistes | such peril |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to peril=Recipient |
| 7 | **not** **shake** | past · passive |  | Pelistes |  | Pelistes's purpose |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from purpose=Trajectory |
| 8 | **purpose** |  | Pelistes |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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