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title: “Florinda,” said the king, “either thou dost not or thou wilt not un… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Florinda,” said the king, “either thou dost not or thou wilt not understand me. Who acts: Florinda, thou. 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 49

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“Florinda,” said the king, “either thou dost not or thou wilt not understand me.

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**Who acts:** Florinda, thou · **What happens:** say, not do, not understand · **To what, where:** king, Florinda · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Florinda, thou), 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:pg77685:6:49
# text = “Florinda,” said the king, “either thou dost not or thou wilt not understand me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Florinda	Florinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc:preconj	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
16	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Florinda | the king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **understand** *in a quote* | future | thou | Florinda |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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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