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title: "Pray, Miss Rosenmore, you do not keep up that absurd idea of going… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "Pray, Miss Rosenmore, you do not keep up that absurd idea of going to church? Who acts: you, absurd idea. 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 14

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"Pray, Miss Rosenmore, you do not keep up that absurd idea of going to church?

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**Who acts:** you, absurd idea · **What happens:** not keep up, go · **To what, where:** Pray, church

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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, absurd idea), 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:pg74323:5:14
# text = "Pray, Miss Rosenmore, you do not keep up that absurd idea of going to church?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pray	Pray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	Rosenmore	Rosenmore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	absurd	absurd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **keep up** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | Pray and Miss |  |  |  | that absurd idea *obj* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent idea=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | that absurd idea *not said here* | church |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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