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title: Every error, while new, may easily be weeded out; but if suffered to… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Every error, while new, may easily be weeded out; but if suffered to take root, it flourishes, and bears seed, and produces fruit an hundred fold. Who acts: error, produces fruit. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., with its 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 12

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Every error, while new, may easily be weeded out; but if suffered to take root, it flourishes, and bears seed, and produces fruit an hundred fold.

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**Who acts:** error, produces fruit · **What happens:** weed out, suffer, take, flourish, fold · **To what, where:** error, root, bears seed

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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 (error, produces fruit), 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:pg77685:36:12
# text = Every error, while new, may easily be weeded out; but if suffered to take root, it flourishes, and bears seed, and produces fruit an hundred fold.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	weeded	weed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	flourishes	flourish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	compound	_	_
25	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	produces	produce	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	compound	_	_
29	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	fold	fold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weed out** | may · passive |  | every error |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **suffer** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | error *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | error *not said here* | root |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme |
| 4 | **flourish** | present | error | bears seed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fold** |  | produces fruit |  |  |  |  |  | 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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