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title: ‘Beware my son,’ said he, ‘of love: it is an idle passion, which enf… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Beware my son,’ said he, ‘of love: it is an idle passion, which enfeebles the heart and blinds the judgment.’” Who acts: you, infatuation, love, idle passion. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 44

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‘Beware my son,’ said he, ‘of love: it is an idle passion, which enfeebles the heart and blinds the judgment.’”

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**Who acts:** you, infatuation, love, idle passion · **What happens:** beware, say, be, enfeeble, blind · **To what, where:** son, idle passion, heart, judgment · **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 (you, infatuation, love, idle passion), 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:pg77685:37:44
# text = ‘Beware my son,’ said he, ‘of love: it is an idle passion, which enfeebles the heart and blinds the judgment.’”
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	enfeebles	enfeeble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	blinds	blind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	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 | **beware** | imperative | you *not said here* | my son |  |  |  | love *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | infatuation |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | love | a idle passion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **enfeeble** | present | a idle passion | the heart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **blind** | present | a idle passion *not said here* | the judgment |  |  |  |  | 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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