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title: Seek not then to indulge a rash and unprofitable curiosity, which is… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Seek not then to indulge a rash and unprofitable curiosity, which is interdicted under such awful menaces.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 23

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Seek not then to indulge a rash and unprofitable curiosity, which is interdicted under such awful menaces.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not seek, indulge, interdict · **To what, where:** rash, such awful menaces

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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 (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:pg77685:7:23
# text = Seek not then to indulge a rash and unprofitable curiosity, which is interdicted under such awful menaces.”
1	Seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	indulge	indulge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rash	rash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	unprofitable	unprofitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	interdicted	interdict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	menaces	menace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **seek** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **indulge** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a rash and unprofitable curiosity |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **interdict** | present · passive |  | a rash and unprofitable curiosity |  | such awful menaces |  |  | tree rules |

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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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