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title: “Wear this,” said he, “as a poor memorial of my admiration; a soldie… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Wear this,” said he, “as a poor memorial of my admiration; a soldier of such virtue and valour is worthy of far higher honours.” Who acts: Sacarus, soldier, my. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., with its dependency tree and the
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 75

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“Wear this,” said he, “as a poor memorial of my admiration; a soldier of such virtue and valour is worthy of far higher honours.”

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**Who acts:** Sacarus, soldier, my · **What happens:** wear, say, be, admire · **To what, where:** this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sacarus, soldier, my), 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:pg77685:30:75
# text = “Wear this,” said he, “as a poor memorial of my admiration; a soldier of such virtue and valour is worthy of far higher honours.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	memorial	memorial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	honours	honour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent this=Source |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sacarus |  |  |  |  | a poor memorial of my admiration *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a soldier of such virtue and valour |  |  |  |  | of higher honours; worthy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **admire** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom admiration «feeling 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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