--- title: Hadst thou counselled otherwise than thou hast done, hadst thou show… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: Hadst thou counselled otherwise than thou hast done, hadst thou shown thyself craven and disloyal, so help me God, I would have struck off thy head with this weapon which I hold in my hand. Who acts: thou, I, weapon. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, I, weapon), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77685:15:38 # text = Hadst thou counselled otherwise than thou hast done, hadst thou shown thyself craven and disloyal, so help me God, I would have struck off thy head with this weapon which I hold in my hand. 1 Hadst have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 3 counselled counsell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 4 otherwise otherwise ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 than than SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nsubj _ _ 7 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 hadst have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 11 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nsubj _ _ 12 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 ccomp _ _ 13 thyself thyself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch 12 obj _ _ 14 craven craven NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 disloyal disloyal NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux _ _ 26 struck strike VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 parataxis _ _ 27 off off ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 weapon weapon NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **counsell** | past | thou | | | | | otherwise *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | present · perfect | thou | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **show** | participle | thou | thyself | | | | craven and disloyal *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thyself=Recipient craven=Topic | | 6 | **help** | infinitive | | me | | | | God *obj* | tree rules | | 7 | **strike off** | would · perfect | I | thy head | | | | with this weapon | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with weapon=Instrument | | 8 | **hold** | present | this weapon | | | my hand | | I *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/15/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/15/39/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIV.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/15/)