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title: But let us not be too hard on the Baron in this respect, for the Eng… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But let us not be too hard on the Baron in this respect, for the English often make as ludicrous errors in German. Who acts: you, us. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 1

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But let us not be too hard on the Baron in this respect, for the English often make as ludicrous errors in German.

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**Who acts:** you, us · **What happens:** let, not be, make · **To what, where:** us, Baron

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us), 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:pg74323:5:1
# text = But let us not be too hard on the Baron in this respect, for the English often make as ludicrous errors in German.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Baron	Baron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	ludicrous	ludicrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	errors	error	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | the Baron |  | in this respect; hard *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for the English; as ludicrous errors in German; often *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for english=Beneficiary |

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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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