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title: Hasten, my father, to rescue your child from the power of the spoile… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Hasten, my father, to rescue your child from the power of the spoiler, and to vindicate the honour of your house!” Who acts: you. 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 78

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Hasten, my father, to rescue your child from the power of the spoiler, and to vindicate the honour of your house!”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hasten, rescue, vindicate, honour · **To what, where:** father, child, power, honour, house

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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 (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:pg77685:6:78
# text = Hasten, my father, to rescue your child from the power of the spoiler, and to vindicate the honour of your house!”
1	Hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	rescue	rescue	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	spoiler	spoiler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	vindicate	vindicate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | imperative | you *not said here* | my father |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent father=Patient |
| 2 | **rescue** | to-infinitive |  | your child |  | the power of the spoiler |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent child=Theme from power=Source |
| 3 | **vindicate** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the honour of your house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **honour** |  |  | your house |  |  |  |  | nom honour «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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