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title: You perceive that the city is capable of withstanding a long siege,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: You perceive that the city is capable of withstanding a long siege, but he is desirous of sparing the lives of his soldiers. Who acts: You, city, Theodomir. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, with 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 79

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You perceive that the city is capable of withstanding a long siege, but he is desirous of sparing the lives of his soldiers.

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**Who acts:** You, city, Theodomir · **What happens:** perceive, be, withstand, spare · **To what, where:** long siege, lives

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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 (You, city, Theodomir), 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:pg77685:31:79
# text = You perceive that the city is capable of withstanding a long siege, but he is desirous of sparing the lives of his soldiers.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	perceive	perceive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	withstanding	withstand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	desirous	desirous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	sparing	spare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | the city |  |  |  |  | capable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **withstand** | gerund | the city *not said here* | a long siege |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | Theodomir |  |  |  |  | desirous *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **spare** | gerund | Theodomir *not said here* | the lives of Theodomir's soldiers |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset |

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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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