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title: “Let not my lord the king,” said he, “make light of these mysterious… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Let not my lord the king,” said he, “make light of these mysterious revelations, which appear to be so disastrously fulfilling. Who acts: King, mysterious revelations. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes an
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 28

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“Let not my lord the king,” said he, “make light of these mysterious revelations, which appear to be so disastrously fulfilling.

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**Who acts:** King, mysterious revelations · **What happens:** let, say, make, appear, fulfil, light · **To what, where:** king, lord, light, mysterious revelations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, mysterious revelations), 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:pg77685:16:28
# text = “Let not my lord the king,” said he, “make light of these mysterious revelations, which appear to be so disastrously fulfilling.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	revelations	revelation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	disastrously	disastrously	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	fulfilling	fulfil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the king | my lord |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lord=Recipient king=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | King *not said here* | light of this mysterious revelations |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset light=Product |
| 4 | **appear** *in a quote* | present | this mysterious revelations |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fulfil** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · progressive | this mysterious revelations *not said here* |  |  |  |  | disastrously *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **light** *in a quote* |  |  | this mysterious revelations |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon 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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