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title: I gave you my left hand at the altar, the wedding-ring and its diamo… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: I gave you my left hand at the altar, the wedding-ring and its diamond keeper glitter on this little hand I hold in mine. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 26

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I gave you my left hand at the altar, the wedding-ring and its diamond keeper glitter on this little hand I hold in mine.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** give, hold · **To what, where:** left hand, you, altar, little hand

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. 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:pg74323:18:26
# text = I gave you my left hand at the altar, the wedding-ring and its diamond keeper glitter on this little hand I hold in mine.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	glitter	glitter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | I | my left hand | you | the altar |  | the wedding ring and altar's keeper glitter on this little hand *parataxis* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient hand=Theme at altar=Asset |
| 2 | **hold** | present | I | this little hand *not said here* |  |  |  | in mine | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in my=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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