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title: But as true as I am an honest Jew, there is only one person in the w… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But as true as I am an honest Jew, there is only one person in the whole German Empire that could purchase the jewel, and that is Fugger in Augsburg." Who acts: I, one person, whole German Empire, that. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., par
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 102

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But as true as I am an honest Jew, there is only one person in the whole German Empire that could purchase the jewel, and that is Fugger in Augsburg."

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**Who acts:** I, one person, whole German Empire, that · **What happens:** be, purchase · **To what, where:** jewel, Fugger, Augsburg

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one person, whole German Empire, that), 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:pg74323:14:103
# text = But as true as I am an honest Jew, there is only one person in the whole German Empire that could purchase the jewel, and that is Fugger in Augsburg."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Jew	Jew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	purchase	purchase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	Fugger	Fugger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Augsburg	Augsburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | as a honest Jew | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | one person in the whole German Empire |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **purchase** | could | the whole German Empire | the jewel |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset jewel=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | that | Fugger |  | Augsburg |  |  | tree rules |

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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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