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title: If such counsel be acceptable to my lord the king, I stand ready to… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: If such counsel be acceptable to my lord the king, I stand ready to depart upon an embassy to the Moslem camp.” Who acts: such counsel, I. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., with its depend
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 33

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If such counsel be acceptable to my lord the king, I stand ready to depart upon an embassy to the Moslem camp.”

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**Who acts:** such counsel, I · **What happens:** be, stand, depart · **To what, where:** Moslem camp

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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 (such counsel, 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:pg77685:16:33
# text = If such counsel be acceptable to my lord the king, I stand ready to depart upon an embassy to the Moslem camp.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	acceptable	acceptable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	embassy	embassy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Moslem	Moslem	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | such counsel |  |  |  |  | to my lord; acceptable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | present | I |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **depart** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | the Moslem camp |  | upon a embassy | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial\_Location |

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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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