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title: “If good be destined me, I shall enjoy it by anticipation: if evil,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “If good be destined me, I shall enjoy it by anticipation: if evil, I shall arm myself to meet it.” Who acts: Roderick. 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 clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 56

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“If good be destined me, I shall enjoy it by anticipation: if evil, I shall arm myself to meet it.”

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**Who acts:** Roderick · **What happens:** destine, enjoy, arm, meet · **To what, where:** good, veil, Roderick

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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 (Roderick), 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:pg77685:8:56
# text = “If good be destined me, I shall enjoy it by anticipation: if evil, I shall arm myself to meet it.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	destined	destine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	anticipation	anticipation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
21	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destine** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  | good |  |  |  | me *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **enjoy** *in a quote* | shall | Roderick | veil |  |  |  | by anticipation | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **arm** *in a quote* | shall | Roderick | Roderick |  |  |  | evil *advcl* | tree rules |
| 4 | **meet** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Roderick *not said here* | veil |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |

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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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