🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 22

Then rising, and standing in the midst of them, “God knows, my companions,” said he, “whether we have any longer a country; if not, better were we in our graves.

Who acts: God, we · What happens: rise, stand, know, say, have, be · To what, where: midst, companions, country, we, graves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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Pragmatics

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