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title: "If we take into consideration," continued the Bürgermeister, "how m… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "If we take into consideration," continued the Bürgermeister, "how much damage the said Arno of Arnstein has caused, death by the sword is too mild. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 5

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"If we take into consideration," continued the Bürgermeister, "how much damage the said Arno of Arnstein has caused, death by the sword is too mild.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** take, continue, say, cause, be · **To what, where:** consideration, Bürgermeister, much damage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (we), 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:pg74323:14:5
# text = "If we take into consideration," continued the Bürgermeister, "how much damage the said Arno of Arnstein has caused, death by the sword is too mild.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	consideration	consideration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Bürgermeister	Bürgermeister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	Arno	Arno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Arnstein	Arnstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | we |  |  | consideration |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into consideration=Destination |
| 2 | **continue** | past |  | the Bürgermeister |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cause** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | much damage |  |  |  | death *obl*; the said Arno of Arnstein *nsubj:pass* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | by the sword; mild *property* | 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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