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title: I possess a stone of priceless value, an heirloom of my family, whic… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: I possess a stone of priceless value, an heirloom of my family, which one of my ancestors took from a Mahomedan Sultan. Who acts: I, stone. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 118

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I possess a stone of priceless value, an heirloom of my family, which one of my ancestors took from a Mahomedan Sultan.

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**Who acts:** I, stone · **What happens:** possess, take · **To what, where:** Mahomedan Sultan

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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, stone), 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:pg74323:14:119
# text = I possess a stone of priceless value, an heirloom of my family, which one of my ancestors took from a Mahomedan Sultan.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	priceless	priceless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	heirloom	heirloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Mahomedan	Mahomedan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | a stone of priceless value |  |  | a Mahomedan Sultan |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from sultan=Initial\_Location |

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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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