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title: All I ask of you before I go, is a solemn promise to defend yourselv… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: All I ask of you before I go, is a solemn promise to defend yourselves to the last like brave men and Christian cavaliers, and never to renounce your faith, or throw yourselves on the mercy of the renegado Magued, or the traitor Julian.” Who acts: All, I. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Sp
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 24

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All I ask of you before I go, is a solemn promise to defend yourselves to the last like brave men and Christian cavaliers, and never to renounce your faith, or throw yourselves on the mercy of the renegado Magued, or the traitor Julian.”

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**Who acts:** All, I · **What happens:** ask, go, be, defend, not renounce, throw · **To what, where:** traitor Julian, solemn promise, yourselves, faith, mercy

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, 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:pg77685:25:24
# text = All I ask of you before I go, is a solemn promise to defend yourselves to the last like brave men and Christian cavaliers, and never to renounce your faith, or throw yourselves on the mercy of the renegado Magued, or the traitor Julian.”
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	renounce	renounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
36	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	obj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	renegado	renegado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	Magued	Magued	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	traitor	traitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | All | traitor Julian |  |  |  | of you; I *nsubj* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of you=Recipient |
| 2 | **go** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a solemn promise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **defend** | to-infinitive | All *not said here* | yourselves |  |  |  | to the last like brave men and Christian cavaliers | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **not** **renounce** | to-infinitive | All *not said here* | your faith |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Source |
| 6 | **throw** | infinitive | All *not said here* | yourselves |  | the mercy of the renegado |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme on mercy=Destination |

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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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