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title: The Inquisitors gained my royal father's permission to make away wit… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Inquisitors gained my royal father's permission to make away with me, a son who loved him truly. Who acts: Inquisitors, son, royal father. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 58

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The Inquisitors gained my royal father's permission to make away with me, a son who loved him truly.

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**Who acts:** Inquisitors, son, royal father · **What happens:** gain, make away, love, permit · **To what, where:** permission, Don

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Inquisitors, son, royal father), 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:pg74323:12:59
# text = The Inquisitors gained my royal father's permission to make away with me, a son who loved him truly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Inquisitors	inquisitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | past | the Inquisitors | my royal father's permission |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme |
| 2 | **make away** | to-infinitive | the Inquisitors *not said here* | my royal father's permission *not said here* |  |  |  | with me; away *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **love** | past | a son | Don |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **permit** |  | my royal father |  |  |  |  |  | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=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 and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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