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title: I have sought you all this time as an old lace-seller, to warn and s… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: I have sought you all this time as an old lace-seller, to warn and save you. Who acts: I. 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 62

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I have sought you all this time as an old lace-seller, to warn and save you.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** seek, warn, save · **To what, where:** you

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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), 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:pg74323:20:62
# text = I have sought you all this time as an old lace-seller, to warn and save you.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	seller	seller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	warn	warn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present · perfect | I | you |  |  | time | as a old lace seller | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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