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title: When vanquished they escape like goats to the mountains, for they ne… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When vanquished they escape like goats to the mountains, for they need not see the ground they tread on.” Who acts: Spaniards. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 43

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When vanquished they escape like goats to the mountains, for they need not see the ground they tread on.”

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**Who acts:** Spaniards · **What happens:** vanquish, escape, not see, tread on · **To what, where:** ground

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spaniards), 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:pg77685:34:43
# text = When vanquished they escape like goats to the mountains, for they need not see the ground they tread on.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	escape	escape	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	tread	tread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanquish** | participle | Spaniards *= spaniard* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **escape** | present | Spaniards *= spaniard* |  |  |  |  | like goats to the mountains | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **see** | present | Spaniards *= spaniard* | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus |
| 4 | **tread on** | present | Spaniards *= spaniard* | the ground *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location ground=Theme |

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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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