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title: Leave Wolfenbüttel on some plausible plea, and in your absence I wil… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Leave Wolfenbüttel on some plausible plea, and in your absence I will retire. Who acts: you, I, your. 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 84

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Leave Wolfenbüttel on some plausible plea, and in your absence I will retire.

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**Who acts:** you, I, your · **What happens:** leave, retire, absent · **To what, where:** Wolfenbüttel, plausible plea, absence

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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 (you, I, your), 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:pg74323:19:84
# text = Leave Wolfenbüttel on some plausible plea, and in your absence I will retire.
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Wolfenbüttel	Wolfenbüttel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	plausible	plausible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	plea	plea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	retire	retire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | Wolfenbüttel |  | some plausible plea |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wolfenbüttel=Theme on plea=Location |
| 2 | **retire** | future | I |  |  | your absence |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **absent** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state 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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