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title: At length she said, "Concerning origin and ancestors I will not now… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: At length she said, "Concerning origin and ancestors I will not now dispute. Who acts: faith. 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 28

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At length she said, "Concerning origin and ancestors I will not now dispute.

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**Who acts:** faith · **What happens:** say, not dispute · **To what, where:** length, Concerning origin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (faith), 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:pg74323:5:28
# text = At length she said, "Concerning origin and ancestors I will not now dispute.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Concerning	concerning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	dispute	dispute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | faith |  |  | length |  | Concerning origin and ancestors *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **dispute** *in a quote* | future | faith | Concerning origin and ancestors *not said here* |  |  | now |  | tree rules |

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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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