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title: Seeing themselves thus shut out, the fugitives determined to die lik… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeing themselves thus shut out, the fugitives determined to die like brave soldiers rather than surrender. Who acts: Arabs. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 18

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Seeing themselves thus shut out, the fugitives determined to die like brave soldiers rather than surrender.

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**Who acts:** Arabs · **What happens:** see, shut out, determine, die · **To what, where:** Arabs, fugitives

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arabs), 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:pg77685:28:18
# text = Seeing themselves thus shut out, the fugitives determined to die like brave soldiers rather than surrender.
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
9	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	17	cc	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	surrender	surrender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  | Arabs *= arab* |  |  |  | the fugitives *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shut out** | participle | Arabs *= arab* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **determine** | participle |  | the fugitives *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **die** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | like brave soldiers rather surrender | 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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