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title: I was at your imagined funeral, and discovered the farce, but no mor… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: I was at your imagined funeral, and discovered the farce, but no mortal save myself knows of my discovery. Who acts: I, mortal save, my. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3, 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 3, sentence 43

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I was at your imagined funeral, and discovered the farce, but no mortal save myself knows of my discovery.

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**Who acts:** I, mortal save, my · **What happens:** imagine, be, discover, know · **To what, where:** imagined funeral, farce

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mortal save, my), 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:pg74323:20:43
# text = I was at your imagined funeral, and discovered the farce, but no mortal save myself knows of my discovery.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	farce	farce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
15	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	save	save	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | past | I |  |  | your imagined funeral |  | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **discover** | past |  | the farce |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farce=Topic |
| 4 | **know** | present | no mortal save  myself |  |  |  |  | of my discovery | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of discovery=Stimulus |
| 5 | **discover** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom discovery «act 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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