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title: And in my Bible I opened yesterday to St. Paul's words: '_the husban… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And in my Bible I opened yesterday to St. Paul's words: '_the husband of one wife_.' Who acts: I, Paul. 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 37

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And in my Bible I opened yesterday to St. Paul's words: '\_the husband of one wife\_.'

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**Who acts:** I, Paul · **What happens:** open, word · **To what, where:** words

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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, Paul), 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:pg74323:18:37
# text = And in my Bible I opened yesterday to St. Paul's words: '_the husband of one wife_.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | I |  | Paul  St.'s words |  | yesterday | in my Bible; the husband of one wife *parataxis* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in bible=Topic to word=Recipient |
| 2 | **word** |  | Paul  St. |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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