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title: Be not more cruel than the tempest, but deal nobly with that which e… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Be not more cruel than the tempest, but deal nobly with that which even sea and storm have spared.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 18

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Be not more cruel than the tempest, but deal nobly with that which even sea and storm have spared.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not be, deal, spare

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg77685:4:18
# text = Be not more cruel than the tempest, but deal nobly with that which even sea and storm have spared.”
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	csubj	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	nobly	nobly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | than the tempest; cruel *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **deal** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with sea  that and storm; nobly *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sea=Theme |
| 3 | **spare** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=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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