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title: But thou hast counselled like a loyal and a Christian knight, and I… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: But thou hast counselled like a loyal and a Christian knight, and I thank God for having given me a son worthy to perpetuate the honours of my line. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 39

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But thou hast counselled like a loyal and a Christian knight, and I thank God for having given me a son worthy to perpetuate the honours of my line.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** counsell, thank, give, perpetuate, honour · **To what, where:** thou, God, son, honours, line

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

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:15:39
# text = But thou hast counselled like a loyal and a Christian knight, and I thank God for having given me a son worthy to perpetuate the honours of my line.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	counselled	counsell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	aux	_	_
19	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	iobj	_	_
23	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	perpetuate	perpetuate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	honours	honour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **counsell** | present · perfect · passive |  | thou |  |  |  | like a loyal and a Christian knight | tree rules |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | I |  | God |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | gerund · perfect | I *not said here* |  | a son |  |  | me *iobj*; worthy *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient son=Theme |
| 4 | **perpetuate** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the honours of my line |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent honour=Patient |
| 5 | **honour** |  |  | my line |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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