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title: With grief and sorrow do I part from thee; for sure I am it would gi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: With grief and sorrow do I part from thee; for sure I am it would give me length of days to abide within thy pleasant walls!” Who acts: I. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 24

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With grief and sorrow do I part from thee; for sure I am it would give me length of days to abide within thy pleasant walls!”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** do, part, give, abide · **To what, where:** thee, length, me

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg77685:34:24
# text = With grief and sorrow do I part from thee; for sure I am it would give me length of days to abide within thy pleasant walls!”
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
24	within	within	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  |  |  | thee |  | with grief and sorrow | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **part** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | would · present | I | length of days | me |  |  | part *nsubj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient length=Theme |
| 4 | **abide** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | length of days *not said here* |  |  |  | within thy pleasant walls | tree rules |

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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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