🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 56

“Father,” replied the youngest, “I have not a doubt that I am honestly and thoroughly your son, and as such I honour you; but I owe duty likewise to my mother, and when I sallied to the war she gave me her blessing as long as I should act with valour, but her curse should I prove craven and fly the field.

Who acts: Father, safety, curse · What happens: reply, have, be, honour, owe, sally · To what, where: youngest, doubt, you, duty, mother, blessing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, safety, curse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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Pragmatics

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