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title: Or if, like many of his companions in arms, he should be driven to w… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Or if, like many of his companions in arms, he should be driven to wander in foreign lands, I would join him in his hapless exile, and we would mourn together over the desolation of our country!” Who acts: I, we. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Meeting Between 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 19

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Or if, like many of his companions in arms, he should be driven to wander in foreign lands, I would join him in his hapless exile, and we would mourn together over the desolation of our country!”

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**Who acts:** I, we · **What happens:** drive, wander, join, mourn, desolate · **To what, where:** many, foreign lands, man, hapless exile, desolation, country

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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:pg77685:26:19
# text = Or if, like many of his companions in arms, he should be driven to wander in foreign lands, I would join him in his hapless exile, and we would mourn together over the desolation of our country!”
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
4	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	hapless	hapless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	mourn	mourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
35	together	together	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	over	over	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	desolation	desolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | should · passive |  | many of man's companions in arms |  |  |  | man *nsubj* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 2 | **wander** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | foreign lands |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Trajectory |
| 3 | **join** | would | I | man |  | man's hapless exile |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **mourn** | would | we |  |  | the desolation of our country |  | together *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **desolate** |  |  | our country |  |  |  |  | nom desolation «state transitive»: of=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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