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title: “Why,” said he, at length, “do you seek to charge me with such weakn… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Why,” said he, at length, “do you seek to charge me with such weakness? Who acts: Abdalasis, you. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 25

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“Why,” said he, at length, “do you seek to charge me with such weakness?

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**Who acts:** Abdalasis, you · **What happens:** say, seek, charge · **To what, where:** Abdalasis · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abdalasis, you), 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:pg77685:37:25
# text = “Why,” said he, at length, “do you seek to charge me with such weakness?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Abdalasis |  |  |  |  | length *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seek** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **charge** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | Abdalasis |  |  | with such weakness | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with weakness=Theme |

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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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