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title: “Saddle thy steed,” said she, “and if thou dost aspire to knightly h… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Saddle thy steed,” said she, “and if thou dost aspire to knightly honour, or hope for lady’s grace—if thou hast fealty for thy lord, or devotion to his daughter—speed swiftly upon my errand. Who acts: Saddle, thou, line. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Sto
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 80

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“Saddle thy steed,” said she, “and if thou dost aspire to knightly honour, or hope for lady’s grace—if thou hast fealty for thy lord, or devotion to his daughter—speed swiftly upon my errand.

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**Who acts:** Saddle, thou, line · **What happens:** say, do, aspire, have · **To what, where:** fealty · **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 (Saddle, thou, line), 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:pg77685:6:80
# text = “Saddle thy steed,” said she, “and if thou dost aspire to knightly honour, or hope for lady’s grace—if thou hast fealty for thy lord, or devotion to his daughter—speed swiftly upon my errand.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dost	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
15	aspire	aspire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	knightly	knightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nsubj	_	_
29	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
30	fealty	fealty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	devotion	devotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	to	to	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	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
42	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
43	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | Saddle |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **aspire** *in a quote* | infinitive | line |  |  |  |  | to knightly honour or hope for lady's grace | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | thou | fealty |  |  |  | for thy lord; devotion to lord's daughter and speed upon my errand *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fealty=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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