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title: “Trust me, lady,” said he, “I will neither halt nor turn aside, nor… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Trust me, lady,” said he, “I will neither halt nor turn aside, nor cast a look behind, until I reach Count Julian.” Who acts: father. 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 83

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“Trust me, lady,” said he, “I will neither halt nor turn aside, nor cast a look behind, until I reach Count Julian.”

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** trust, say, halt, turn, cast, reach · **To what, where:** father, look, Julian · **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 (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:pg77685:6:83
# text = “Trust me, lady,” said he, “I will neither halt nor turn aside, nor cast a look behind, until I reach Count Julian.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc:preconj	_	_
15	halt	halt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
17	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
21	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
29	Count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
30	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | father |  |  |  | lady *obl* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **halt** *in a quote* | future | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **turn** *in a quote* | infinitive | father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cast** *in a quote* | infinitive | father *not said here* | a look |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Product |
| 6 | **reach** *in a quote* | present | father |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **count** *in a quote* | infinitive | father *not said here* | Julian |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent julian=Theme |

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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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