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title: The conflict that ensued was desperate and doubtful, for seldom had… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The conflict that ensued was desperate and doubtful, for seldom had two warriors met so well matched or of equal prowess. Who acts: conflict, two warriors. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., with its dependency tr
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 43

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The conflict that ensued was desperate and doubtful, for seldom had two warriors met so well matched or of equal prowess.

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**Who acts:** conflict, two warriors · **What happens:** ensue, be, have, meet, match

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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 (conflict, two 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:pg77685:25:43
# text = The conflict that ensued was desperate and doubtful, for seldom had two warriors met so well matched or of equal prowess.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ensued	ensue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	desperate	desperate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	matched	match	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	prowess	prowess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ensue** | past | the conflict |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the conflict |  |  |  |  | desperate *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the conflict *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | two warriors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | seldom *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **meet** | past | two warriors |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **match** | participle | two warriors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | equal prowess *conj*; well *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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