---
title: May evil overtake me, and infamy rest upon my name, if I cease until… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: May evil overtake me, and infamy rest upon my name, if I cease until I have full measure of revenge.” Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/9/25/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the conquest of Spain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/) / [Chapter VIII.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/9/) / 25

# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 25

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
May evil overtake me, and infamy rest upon my name, if I cease until I have full measure of revenge.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** overtake, rest, cease, have, name, measure · **To what, where:** me, name, full measure, revenge

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:9:25
# text = May evil overtake me, and infamy rest upon my name, if I cease until I have full measure of revenge.”
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	overtake	overtake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	infamy	infamy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	cease	cease	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overtake** | may |  | me |  |  |  | evil *compound* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rest** | present |  |  |  | my name |  | infamy *compound* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon name=Location |
| 3 | **cease** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **have** | present | I | full measure of revenge |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Patient |
| 5 | **name** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **measure** |  |  | revenge |  |  |  |  | nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/9/24/)
- next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/9/26/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter VIII.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/9/)