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title: “Go forth! go forth!” cried they, “and accept whatever terms are off… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Go forth! go forth!” cried they, “and accept whatever terms are offered: of what avail is it to fight against men who can renew their youth at pleasure? Who acts: deputies, avail, men. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., with its
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 64

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“Go forth! go forth!” cried they, “and accept whatever terms are offered: of what avail is it to fight against men who can renew their youth at pleasure?

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**Who acts:** deputies, avail, men · **What happens:** go, cry, accept, offer, be, renew · **To what, where:** whatever, youth, pleasure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deputies, avail, men), 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:pg77685:30:64
# text = “Go forth! go forth!” cried they, “and accept whatever terms are offered: of what avail is it to fight against men who can renew their youth at pleasure?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
3	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	accept	accept	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
15	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	parataxis	_	_
22	avail	avail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	renew	renew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | deputies *= deputy* |  |  |  |  | what *parataxis* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **accept** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **offer** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | whatever |  |  |  | terms *nsubj:pass* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | avail |  |  |  |  | against men; fight *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **renew** *in a quote* | can | men | deputies's youth |  | pleasure |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent youth=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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