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title: “Bear that frantic women hence,” said the emir; “but guard her well.” — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Bear that frantic women hence,” said the emir; “but guard her well.” Who acts: frantic women. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 139

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“Bear that frantic women hence,” said the emir; “but guard her well.”

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**Who acts:** frantic women · **What happens:** say, guar · **To what, where:** emir, woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frantic women), 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:pg77685:39:139
# text = “Bear that frantic women hence,” said the emir; “but guard her well.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	frantic	frantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	emir	emir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	guard	guar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	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 | frantic women | the emir |  |  |  | Bear *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent emir=Topic |
| 2 | **guar** *in a quote* | past | frantic women *not said here* | woman |  |  |  | well *property* | 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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