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title: My son shall never be your heir, shall never supplant your first-bor… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: My son shall never be your heir, shall never supplant your first-born son and lawful heir. Who acts: son, heir. 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 58

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My son shall never be your heir, shall never supplant your first-born son and lawful heir.

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**Who acts:** son, heir · **What happens:** not be, not supplant, bear · **To what, where:** heir, born son

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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 (son, heir), 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:pg74323:18:58
# text = My son shall never be your heir, shall never supplant your first-born son and lawful heir.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	supplant	supplant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	lawful	lawful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | shall | My son | your heir |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **supplant** | shall | your heir *not said here* | your born son and lawful heir |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme son=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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