Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 64

“Go forth! go forth!” cried they, “and accept whatever terms are offered: of what avail is it to fight against men who can renew their youth at pleasure?

Who acts: deputies, avail, men · What happens: go, cry, accept, offer, be, renew · To what, where: whatever, youth, pleasure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deputies, avail, men), 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	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	ccomp
3	forth	forth	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
6	forth	forth	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 offered	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 offered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 accept	cc
14	accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 offered	parataxis
15	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 offered	nsubj:pass
16	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 offered	nsubj:pass
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 offered	aux:pass
18	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cried	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 what	punct
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 what	case
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 cried	parataxis
22	avail	avail	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fight	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 fight	cop
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fight	nsubj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 fight	mark
26	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 what	acl:relcl
27	against	against	ADP	_	28 men	case
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fight	obl
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 renew	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 renew	aux
31	renew	renew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 men	acl:relcl
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 youth	nmod:poss
33	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 renew	obj
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 pleasure	case
35	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 renew	obl
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	infinitive				forth property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go in a quote	infinitive				forth property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	deputies = deputy			what parataxis	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	accept in a quote	infinitive					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	offer in a quote	present · passive		whatever		terms nsubj:pass	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
6	is in a quote	present	avail			against men; fight property	tree rules
7	renew in a quote	can	men	deputies's youth	pleasure		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent youth=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 Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 64