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title: “Perhaps he may,” replied Muza bitterly; “but, in the meantime, I ca… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Perhaps he may,” replied Muza bitterly; “but, in the meantime, I cannot confide his interests to a desperado, who is heedless of orders and throws every thing at hazard. Who acts: Muza, desperado, sovereign. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Arrives At Tole
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 25

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“Perhaps he may,” replied Muza bitterly; “but, in the meantime, I cannot confide his interests to a desperado, who is heedless of orders and throws every thing at hazard.

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**Who acts:** Muza, desperado, sovereign · **What happens:** reply, not confide, be, throw, interest · **To what, where:** interests, desperado, meantime, thing, hazard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muza, desperado, sovereign), 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:pg77685:32:25
# text = “Perhaps he may,” replied Muza bitterly; “but, in the meantime, I cannot confide his interests to a desperado, who is heedless of orders and throws every thing at hazard.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	confide	confide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	interests	interest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	desperado	desperado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	heedless	heedless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	throws	throw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	hazard	hazard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | may | Muza |  |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **confide** *speech: other* *in a quote* | can | Muza | sovereign's interests | a desperado | the meantime |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent interest=Topic to desperado=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a desperado |  |  |  |  | of orders; heedless *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **throw** *in a quote* | present | a desperado *not said here* | every thing |  | hazard |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thing=Theme at hazard=Destination |
| 5 | **interest** *in a quote* |  | sovereign |  |  |  |  |  | nom interest «cognition 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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