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title: He besought her to unite her destiny with his, and share his state a… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He besought her to unite her destiny with his, and share his state and power, promising that she should have no rival nor co-partner in his heart. Who acts: repulse, spirit. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., with its dependency tr
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 38

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He besought her to unite her destiny with his, and share his state and power, promising that she should have no rival nor co-partner in his heart.

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**Who acts:** repulse, spirit · **What happens:** beseech, unite, share, promise, have · **To what, where:** spirit, destiny, state, rival, heart

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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 (repulse, spirit), 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:pg77685:37:38
# text = He besought her to unite her destiny with his, and share his state and power, promising that she should have no rival nor co-partner in his heart.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	besought	beseech	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	unite	unite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	destiny	destiny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	rival	rival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
26	co-partner	co-partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beseech** | past | repulse | spirit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **unite** | to-infinitive | repulse *not said here* | spirit's destiny |  |  |  | repulse *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **share** | infinitive | repulse *not said here* | repulse's state and power |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | repulse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have** *not said to happen* | should | spirit | no rival nor co-partner |  | repulse's heart |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rival=Patient |

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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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