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title: The soldiers of the countess saw it also, and made extraordinary eff… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The soldiers of the countess saw it also, and made extraordinary efforts to destroy these internal enemies, before they should be attacked from without. Who acts: soldiers. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with its depende
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 91

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The soldiers of the countess saw it also, and made extraordinary efforts to destroy these internal enemies, before they should be attacked from without.

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**Who acts:** soldiers · **What happens:** see, make, destroy, attack · **To what, where:** countess, extraordinary efforts, internal enemies, soldiers

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldiers), 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:pg77685:39:91
# text = The soldiers of the countess saw it also, and made extraordinary efforts to destroy these internal enemies, before they should be attacked from without.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	countess	countess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	attacked	attack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	obl	_	_
26	without	without	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the soldiers of the countess | countess |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | past |  | extraordinary efforts |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effort=Product |
| 3 | **destroy** | to-infinitive |  | this internal enemies |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient |
| 4 | **attack** | should · passive |  | soldiers *= soldier* |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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