Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 33

They will augment faster than we; they are living, too, at our expense, and, while we pause, both armies are consuming the substance of the land.”

Who acts: cavaliers, we, armies · What happens: augment, live, pause, consume · To what, where: expense, substance

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cavaliers, we, armies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 augment	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 augment	aux
3	augment	augment	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 augment	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 we	case
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 faster	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 living	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 living	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 living	aux
10	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 augment	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 too	punct
12	too	too	ADV	_	10 living	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 expense	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 expense	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 expense	nmod:poss
16	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 living	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pause	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pause	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pause	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 pause	mark
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 pause	nsubj
22	pause	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 living	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 consuming	punct
24	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	25 armies	det
25	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 consuming	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 consuming	aux
27	consuming	consume	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 living	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 substance	det
29	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 consuming	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 land	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 land	det
32	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 substance	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 augment	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 augment	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	augment	future	cavaliers = cavalier			fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	live	present · progressive	cavaliers = cavalier		our expense		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at expense=Location
3	pause	present	we				vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	consume	present · progressive	both armies	the substance of the land			vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent substance=Asset

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.

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 33