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title: If you deny the Bible, we have no common ground of argument; and if… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: If you deny the Bible, we have no common ground of argument; and if your argument be true, we have after this life--nothing. Who acts: you, we, argument, your. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 29

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If you deny the Bible, we have no common ground of argument; and if your argument be true, we have after this life--nothing.

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**Who acts:** you, we, argument, your · **What happens:** deny, have, be, argue · **To what, where:** Bible, common ground

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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, we, argument, your), 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:pg74323:5:29
# text = If you deny the Bible, we have no common ground of argument; and if your argument be true, we have after this life--nothing.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	deny	deny	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
10	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deny** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | the Bible |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent bible=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | present | we | no common ground of argument |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | your argument |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | we |  |  |  | after this life  nothing |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **argue** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom argument «communication 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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