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title: In doing so, I do but listen to the dictates of true magnanimity.” — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In doing so, I do but listen to the dictates of true magnanimity.” Who acts: I, true magnanimity. 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 28

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In doing so, I do but listen to the dictates of true magnanimity.”

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**Who acts:** I, true magnanimity · **What happens:** do, listen, dictate

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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 (I, true magnanimity), 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:pg77685:37:28
# text = In doing so, I do but listen to the dictates of true magnanimity.”
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dictates	dictate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	magnanimity	magnanimity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **listen** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the dictates of true magnanimity | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to dictate=Theme |
| 4 | **dictate** |  | true magnanimity |  |  |  |  |  | nom dictate «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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