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title: You must be joking with poor Levi, for you must know I could not com… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: You must be joking with poor Levi, for you must know I could not command a sufficient sum to buy so costly a jewel." Who acts: You, I. 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 clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 98

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You must be joking with poor Levi, for you must know I could not command a sufficient sum to buy so costly a jewel."

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** joke, know, not command, buy · **To what, where:** sufficient sum, costly jewel · **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 (You, 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:pg74323:14:99
# text = You must be joking with poor Levi, for you must know I could not command a sufficient sum to buy so costly a jewel."
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Levi	Levi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | must · progressive | You |  |  |  |  | with poor Levi | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with levi=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **know** | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **command** | could | I | a sufficient sum |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality |
| 4 | **buy** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a costly jewel |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme |

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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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