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title: Avoid all treachery, though it should promise great advantage; and t… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Avoid all treachery, though it should promise great advantage; and trust not in him who counsels it, even though he should be a brother. Who acts: you, treachery, father. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., with its dependenc
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 7

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Avoid all treachery, though it should promise great advantage; and trust not in him who counsels it, even though he should be a brother.

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**Who acts:** you, treachery, father · **What happens:** avoid, promise, not trust, counsel, be · **To what, where:** treachery, great advantage, advantage, brother

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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 (you, treachery, father), 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:pg77685:36:7
# text = Avoid all treachery, though it should promise great advantage; and trust not in him who counsels it, even though he should be a brother.
1	Avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	treachery	treachery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	counsels	counsel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** | imperative | you *not said here* | all treachery |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent treachery=Location |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | should | treachery | great advantage |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **trust** | present |  |  |  |  |  | in father | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **counsel** *speech: other* | present |  | advantage |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** | should | father | a brother |  |  |  |  | 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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