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title: The watch I wear, that you gave me that last morning in the antecham… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The watch I wear, that you gave me that last morning in the antechamber, when I was on duty as lady in waiting, reminds me of the flight of time, and the unceasing approach of a coming judgment. Who acts: I, you, lady, last morning. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie L
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 45

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The watch I wear, that you gave me that last morning in the antechamber, when I was on duty as lady in waiting, reminds me of the flight of time, and the unceasing approach of a coming judgment.

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**Who acts:** I, you, lady, last morning, coming judgment · **What happens:** wear, give, be, wait, remind, come · **To what, where:** watch, me, duty

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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, you, lady, last morning), 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:pg74323:18:45
# text = The watch I wear, that you gave me that last morning in the antechamber, when I was on duty as lady in waiting, reminds me of the flight of time, and the unceasing approach of a coming judgment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
11	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	antechamber	antechamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
27	reminds	remind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	unceasing	unceasing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	approach	approach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	amod	_	_
42	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | I | the watch |  |  |  | the unceasing approach of a coming judgment *obl* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent watch=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | you |  | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  | duty |  | as lady | tree rules |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund | lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **remind** *speech: other* | present | last morning in the antechamber |  | me |  |  | of the flight of time | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of flight=Topic |
| 6 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **approach** |  | a coming judgment |  |  |  |  |  | nom approach «act intransitive»: of=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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