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title: I shall resign my office at Court and retire, ostensibly to return t… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall resign my office at Court and retire, ostensibly to return to my uncle's. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2, 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 2, sentence 81

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I shall resign my office at Court and retire, ostensibly to return to my uncle's.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** resign, retire, return · **To what, where:** office, Court

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. 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:pg74323:19:81
# text = I shall resign my office at Court and retire, ostensibly to return to my uncle's.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	resign	resign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	retire	retire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	ostensibly	ostensibly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resign** | shall | I | my office |  | Court |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent office=Theme |
| 2 | **retire** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **return** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to my uncle *result*; ostensibly *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to uncle=Result |

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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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