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title: The worthy prelate shook his hoary head: “Beware, my son,” said he;… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The worthy prelate shook his hoary head: “Beware, my son,” said he; “there are secrets hidden from man for his good. Who acts: worthy prelate, prelate. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., with its dependency tree and
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 20

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The worthy prelate shook his hoary head: “Beware, my son,” said he; “there are secrets hidden from man for his good.

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**Who acts:** worthy prelate, prelate · **What happens:** shake, beware, say, be, hide · **To what, where:** hoary head, secrets · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (worthy prelate, prelate), 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:pg77685:7:20
# text = The worthy prelate shook his hoary head: “Beware, my son,” said he; “there are secrets hidden from man for his good.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	prelate	prelate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hoary	hoary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
23	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | past | the worthy prelate | prelate's hoary head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beware** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | my son *vocative* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | prelate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | secrets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hide** *in a quote* | participle |  | secrets *not said here* |  |  |  | from man for prelate's good | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from man=Beneficiary |

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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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