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title: If you want proof, demand of these Christian cavaliers here present,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: If you want proof, demand of these Christian cavaliers here present, most of whom I captured; demand of those Moslem warriors who aided me in my battles.” Who acts: you, I, Moslem warriors, my. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV., with its dependency t
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 23

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If you want proof, demand of these Christian cavaliers here present, most of whom I captured; demand of those Moslem warriors who aided me in my battles.”

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**Who acts:** you, I, Moslem warriors, my · **What happens:** want, capture, aid, demand, battle · **To what, where:** proof, me, battles, demand, Christian cavaliers, Moslem warriors

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, Moslem warriors, my), 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:pg77685:35:23
# text = If you want proof, demand of these Christian cavaliers here present, most of whom I captured; demand of those Moslem warriors who aided me in my battles.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	Moslem	Moslem	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	aided	aid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | you | proof |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot proof=Theme |
| 2 | **capture** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **aid** | past | that Moslem warriors |  | me | my battles |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **demand** |  |  | this Christian cavaliers |  |  |  |  | nom demand «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **demand** |  |  | that Moslem warriors |  |  |  |  | nom demand «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **battle** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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