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title: Mark well his reply, and bring it word for word. — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Mark well his reply, and bring it word for word. Who acts: Mark. 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 15

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Mark well his reply, and bring it word for word.

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**Who acts:** Mark · **What happens:** well, bring, reply · **To what, where:** reply

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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 (Mark), 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:pg77685:17:15
# text = Mark well his reply, and bring it word for word.
1	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	well	well	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **well** | past | Mark | Mark's reply |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | Mark *not said here* | reply |  |  |  | word *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme word=Destination |
| 3 | **reply** |  | Mark |  |  |  |  |  | nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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