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title: What love canst thou expect from men who have been unnatural to thei… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: What love canst thou expect from men who have been unnatural to their kindred; and what loyalty from wretches who have betrayed their country?” Who acts: thou, men, wretches. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., with its depen
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 20

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What love canst thou expect from men who have been unnatural to their kindred; and what loyalty from wretches who have betrayed their country?”

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**Who acts:** thou, men, wretches · **What happens:** be, expect, loyalty, betray · **To what, where:** wretches, country

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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, men, wretches), 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:pg77685:36:20
# text = What love canst thou expect from men who have been unnatural to their kindred; and what loyalty from wretches who have betrayed their country?”
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	unnatural	unnatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	kindred	kindred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
18	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	wretches	wretch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	betrayed	betray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **expect** | can | thou |  |  |  |  | from men | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present · perfect | men |  |  |  |  | to men's kindred; unnatural *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **loyalty** |  |  |  |  | wretches |  | what *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **betray** | present · perfect | wretches | wretches's country |  |  |  |  | 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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