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title: But if I remain here, and you should all be killed, where then would… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: But if I remain here, and you should all be killed, where then would be my protection? Who acts: I. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 53

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But if I remain here, and you should all be killed, where then would be my protection?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** remain, kill, be · **To what, where:** you, protection

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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 (I), 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:pg77685:31:53
# text = But if I remain here, and you should all be killed, where then would be my protection?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | should · passive |  | you |  |  |  | all *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | would |  | my protection |  |  | then | my *nmod:poss* | 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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