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title: Their want of warlike munitions, however, and the superior force and… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Their want of warlike munitions, however, and the superior force and skill of the besieging army, left them no hope of being able to hold out long. Who acts: want, hope, spies. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., with its 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 6

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Their want of warlike munitions, however, and the superior force and skill of the besieging army, left them no hope of being able to hold out long.

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**Who acts:** want, hope, spies · **What happens:** besiege, leave, be, hold out, want · **To what, where:** spies, warlike munitions

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (want, hope, spies), 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:pg77685:29:6
# text = Their want of warlike munitions, however, and the superior force and skill of the besieging army, left them no hope of being able to hold out long.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	munitions	munition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	besieging	besiege	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
20	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
26	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **besiege** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | past | spies's want of warlike munitions | spies *= spy* |  |  |  | the superior force and skill of the besieging army *nsubj*; no hope *obj*; however *property* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme hope=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | no hope *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold out** | to-infinitive | no hope *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **want** |  | spies *= spy* | warlike munitions |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent 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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