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title: If thou hast loyalty and affection for thy lord, now is the time to… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: If thou hast loyalty and affection for thy lord, now is the time to serve him. Who acts: thou. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 10

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If thou hast loyalty and affection for thy lord, now is the time to serve him.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** have, be, serve · **To what, where:** loyalty, time, page

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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:pg77685:17:10
# text = If thou hast loyalty and affection for thy lord, now is the time to serve him.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | loyalty and affection |  |  |  | for thy lord | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loyalty=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the time |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **serve** | to-infinitive |  | page |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |

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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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