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title: May God incline your majesty ever to protect me as a father.” — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: May God incline your majesty ever to protect me as a father.” Who acts: God. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 47

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May God incline your majesty ever to protect me as a father.”

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** incline, protect · **To what, where:** majesty, me

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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:pg77685:6:47
# text = May God incline your majesty ever to protect me as a father.”
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	incline	incline	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incline** | may | God | your majesty |  |  | ever |  | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent majesty=Patient |
| 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* |  | me |  |  | as a father | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |

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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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