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title: “This shall be thy assurance,” replied the rabbi: “ten of the princi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “This shall be thy assurance,” replied the rabbi: “ten of the principal Israelites will come to this tent and remain as hostages.” Who acts: This, assurance, ten. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VI., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 17

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“This shall be thy assurance,” replied the rabbi: “ten of the principal Israelites will come to this tent and remain as hostages.”

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**Who acts:** This, assurance, ten · **What happens:** be, reply, come, remain · **To what, where:** assurance, rabbi, tent · **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 (This, assurance, ten), 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:pg77685:27:17
# text = “This shall be thy assurance,” replied the rabbi: “ten of the principal Israelites will come to this tent and remain as hostages.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	assurance	assurance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rabbi	rabbi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Israelites	israelite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	hostages	hostage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall | This | thy assurance |  |  |  | thy *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | thy assurance | the rabbi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | future | ten of the principal Israelites |  |  | this tent |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tent=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **remain** *in a quote* | present | ten of the principal Israelites *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as hostages | vn exist-47.1 «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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