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title: If thou shouldst discover any foible of a vicious kind springing up… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: If thou shouldst discover any foible of a vicious kind springing up in thy nature, pluck it forth, whatever pang it cost thee. Who acts: thou, vicious kind, you, pang. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., with its dependency t
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 11

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If thou shouldst discover any foible of a vicious kind springing up in thy nature, pluck it forth, whatever pang it cost thee.

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**Who acts:** thou, vicious kind, you, pang · **What happens:** discover, spring up, pluck, cost · **To what, where:** foible, nature, thee

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, vicious kind, you, pang), 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:pg77685:36:11
# text = If thou shouldst discover any foible of a vicious kind springing up in thy nature, pluck it forth, whatever pang it cost thee.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shouldst	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	foible	foible	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	vicious	vicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	springing	spring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
22	pang	pang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	cost	cost	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
25	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | thou | any foible of a vicious kind |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foible=Topic |
| 2 | **spring up** | gerund | a vicious kind *not said here* |  |  | thy nature |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nature=Location |
| 3 | **pluck** | imperative | you *not said here* | foible |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **cost** | past | whatever pang |  | thee |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thou=Value |

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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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