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title: “What glory,” said they, “is to be gained by destroying an enemy in… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “What glory,” said they, “is to be gained by destroying an enemy in this way, from the covert of rocks and thickets?” Who acts: glory. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, with its dependency tree an
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 42

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“What glory,” said they, “is to be gained by destroying an enemy in this way, from the covert of rocks and thickets?”

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**Who acts:** glory · **What happens:** glory, say, gain, destroy · **To what, where:** enemy, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glory), 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:pg77685:31:42
# text = “What glory,” said they, “is to be gained by destroying an enemy in this way, from the covert of rocks and thickets?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
14	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	covert	covert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glory** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  | What *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | glory |  |  |  |  | prowess *nsubj*; the covert of rocks and thickets *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **gain** *in a quote* | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V» |
| 4 | **destroy** *in a quote* | gerund |  | a enemy |  | this way |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=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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