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title: “Senior,” said she, “the line I spring from can receive no dignity b… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Senior,” said she, “the line I spring from can receive no dignity by means so vile; and my father would rather die than purchase rank and power by the dishonour of his child. Who acts: consciousness, line, father. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of F
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 56

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“Senior,” said she, “the line I spring from can receive no dignity by means so vile; and my father would rather die than purchase rank and power by the dishonour of his child.

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**Who acts:** consciousness, line, father · **What happens:** say, spring, receive, mean, die, dishonour · **To what, where:** line, dignity, child · **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 (consciousness, line, father), 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:pg77685:6:56
# text = “Senior,” said she, “the line I spring from can receive no dignity by means so vile; and my father would rather die than purchase rank and power by the dishonour of his child.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Senior	senior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	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	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	spring	spring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	csubj	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	vile	vile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	dishonour	dishonour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	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 | consciousness |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **spring** *in a quote* | present | consciousness | the line *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location line=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** *in a quote* | can | the line | no dignity |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dignity=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | vile *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **die** *in a quote* | would | my father |  |  |  |  | than purchase rank and power; by the dishonour of father's child | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **dishonour** *in a quote* |  |  | father's child |  |  |  |  | nom dishonour «state 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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