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title: “What I have to reveal,” replied the other, “is for thee alone to he… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “What I have to reveal,” replied the other, “is for thee alone to hear: command then, I entreat thee, that these men withdraw.” Who acts: I, thee, men. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VI., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 10

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“What I have to reveal,” replied the other, “is for thee alone to hear: command then, I entreat thee, that these men withdraw.”

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**Who acts:** I, thee, men · **What happens:** have, reveal, reply, be, command, entreat · **To what, where:** other, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thee, men), 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:pg77685:27:10
# text = “What I have to reveal,” replied the other, “is for thee alone to hear: command then, I entreat thee, that these men withdraw.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	reveal	reveal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
17	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	entreat	entreat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
26	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | What *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reveal** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the other |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | thee |  |  |  |  | alone, hear *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **command** *in a quote* | infinitive | thee *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **entreat** *in a quote* | present | I | thee |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |
| 7 | **withdraw** *in a quote* | present | this men |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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