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title: "If you are content with the doctrine of man's descent from an ape,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "If you are content with the doctrine of man's descent from an ape, originally, according to your own argument, from a frog! Who acts: you, man, 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 pragmatics of 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 31

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"If you are content with the doctrine of man's descent from an ape, originally, according to your own argument, from a frog!

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**Who acts:** you, man, your · **What happens:** be, accord, indoctrinate, descend, argue · **To what, where:** descent, ape

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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, man, 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:pg74323:5:31
# text = "If you are content with the doctrine of man's descent from an ape, originally, according to your own argument, from a frog!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	doctrine	doctrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ape	ape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	case	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | with the doctrine of man's descent from a ape; your own argument and a frog *parataxis*; content *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **accord** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **indoctrinate** *in a quote* |  |  | man's descent |  | a ape |  |  | nom doctrine «cognition transitive»: of=patient from=place |
| 4 | **descend** *in a quote* |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom descent «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **argue** *in a quote* |  | 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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