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title: “Glory is a prize one may fight for abroad, but safety is the object… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Glory is a prize one may fight for abroad, but safety is the object when the enemy is at the door.” Who acts: Glory, prize one, safety, enemy. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, with its dependenc
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 44

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“Glory is a prize one may fight for abroad, but safety is the object when the enemy is at the door.”

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**Who acts:** Glory, prize one, safety, enemy · **What happens:** be, fight · **To what, where:** prize one, object, door

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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, prize one, safety, enemy), 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:pg77685:31:44
# text = “Glory is a prize one may fight for abroad, but safety is the object when the enemy is at the door.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Glory | a prize one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fight** *in a quote* | may | a prize one |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | safety | the object |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the enemy |  |  | the door |  |  | tree rules |

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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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