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title: Though the enemy were two to one, my Moslems never shunned the comba… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Though the enemy were two to one, my Moslems never shunned the combat!” Who acts: Moslems. 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 51

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Though the enemy were two to one, my Moslems never shunned the combat!”

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**Who acts:** Moslems · **What happens:** be, not shun · **To what, where:** two, one, combat

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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 (Moslems), 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:pg77685:34:51
# text = Though the enemy were two to one, my Moslems never shunned the combat!”
1	Though	though	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Moslems	Moslems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	shunned	shun	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | two | one |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **shun** | past | my Moslems | the combat |  |  |  | though the enemy | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent combat=Location |

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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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