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title: None but light and inconsiderate minds,” continues the good friar, “… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: None but light and inconsiderate minds,” continues the good friar, “do hastily reject the marvellous. Who acts: None minds. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 4

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None but light and inconsiderate minds,” continues the good friar, “do hastily reject the marvellous.

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**Who acts:** None minds · **What happens:** continue, reject · **To what, where:** good friar, marvellous · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (None minds), 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:pg77685:8:4
# text = None but light and inconsiderate minds,” continues the good friar, “do hastily reject the marvellous.
1	None	none	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	inconsiderate	inconsiderate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
6	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	continues	continue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	friar	friar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	reject	reject	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	marvellous	marvellous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** *in a quote* | present | None minds | the good friar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reject** | infinitive · do-support |  | the marvellous |  |  |  | hastily *property* | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marvellous=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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