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title: If I could only be set free I would carry out my ideas of freedom." — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: If I could only be set free I would carry out my ideas of freedom." Who acts: I. 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 clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 61

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If I could only be set free I would carry out my ideas of freedom."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, carry out · **To what, where:** ideas

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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 (I), 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:pg74323:12:62
# text = If I could only be set free I would carry out my ideas of freedom."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | could | I |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry out** | would | I | my ideas of freedom |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Eventuality |

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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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