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title: “Commander of the faithful!” said he, “examine this precious table,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Commander of the faithful!” said he, “examine this precious table, if any part be wanting.” Who acts: Commander, part. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 16

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“Commander of the faithful!” said he, “examine this precious table, if any part be wanting.”

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**Who acts:** Commander, part · **What happens:** say, examine, want · **To what, where:** precious table · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Commander, part), 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:pg77685:35:16
# text = “Commander of the faithful!” said he, “examine this precious table, if any part be wanting.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Commander of the faithful |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **examine** *in a quote* | infinitive | Commander | this precious table |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme |
| 3 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive · progressive | any part |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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