Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 9

“We cannot save the city,” said they, “but at least we may save ourselves, and preserve so many strong arms for the service of our country.

Who acts: We, cavaliers · What happens: not save, say, save, preserve, service · To what, where: city, ourselves, least, many strong arms, country · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, cavaliers), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 save	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 save	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 save	advmod
5	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 save	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 save	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 save	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 save	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 least	case
16	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 save	obl
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 save	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 save	aux
19	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
20	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 save	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 preserve	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 preserve	cc
23	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 save	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 many	advmod
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 arms	amod
26	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 arms	amod
27	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 preserve	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 service	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 service	det
30	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 preserve	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 country	case
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 country	nmod:poss
33	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 service	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not save in a quote	can	We	the city			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	cavaliers = cavalier				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	save in a quote	may	we	ourselves	least		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme at least=Asset
4	preserve in a quote	infinitive	we not said here	many strong arms		for the service of our country	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Beneficiary
5	service in a quote			our country			nom service «act transitive»: of=patient

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, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 9

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 9