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title: “My father,” said he, “spake but of the blandishments of wanton love… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “My father,” said he, “spake but of the blandishments of wanton love; against these I am secured by my virtuous passion for Exilona.” Who acts: father, virtuous passion. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., with its dependency tree a
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 46

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“My father,” said he, “spake but of the blandishments of wanton love; against these I am secured by my virtuous passion for Exilona.”

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**Who acts:** father, virtuous passion · **What happens:** say, speak, secure, blandish · **To what, where:** these, wanton love · **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 (father, virtuous 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:pg77685:37:46
# text = “My father,” said he, “spake but of the blandishments of wanton love; against these I am secured by my virtuous passion for Exilona.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	blandishments	blandishment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	wanton	wanton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	against	against	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	secured	secure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	virtuous	virtuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Exilona	Exilona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | My father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* |  | father |  |  |  |  | the blandishments of wanton love *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **secure** *in a quote* | present · passive | my virtuous passion for Exilona | these |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Theme |
| 4 | **blandish** *in a quote* |  |  | wanton love |  |  |  |  | nom blandishment «communication transitive»: of=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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