Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 7

Avoid all treachery, though it should promise great advantage; and trust not in him who counsels it, even though he should be a brother.

Who acts: you, treachery, father · What happens: avoid, promise, not trust, counsel, be · To what, where: treachery, great advantage, advantage, brother

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, treachery, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 treachery	det
3	treachery	treachery	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Avoid	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct
5	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 promise	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 promise	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 promise	aux
8	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Avoid	conj
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 advantage	amod
10	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 trust	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 trust	cc
13	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Avoid	parataxis
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 trust	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 trust	obl
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 counsels	nsubj
18	counsels	counsel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 trust	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 counsels	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brother	punct
21	even	even	ADV	_	27 brother	advmod
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 brother	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 brother	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 brother	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 brother	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 brother	det
27	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 counsels	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Avoid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	avoid	imperative	you not said here	all treachery		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent treachery=Location
2	promise speech: promise	should	treachery	great advantage		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme
3	not trust	present			in father	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	counsel speech: other	present		advantage	who nsubj	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
5	is a	should	father	a brother		tree rules

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.

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 7