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title: Forward! was ever the good old Gothic watchword, and with that will… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Forward! was ever the good old Gothic watchword, and with that will we live and die!” Who acts: we. 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 64

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Forward! was ever the good old Gothic watchword, and with that will we live and die!”

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** be, live, die · **To what, where:** good old Gothic watchword

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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 (we), 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:pg77685:31:64
# text = Forward! was ever the good old Gothic watchword, and with that will we live and die!”
1	Forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	watchword	watchword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the good old Gothic watchword |  |  | ever | forward *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | future | we |  |  |  |  | with that | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with that=Location |
| 3 | **die** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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