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title: I deny its truth, and claim mine from an eternal, omnipotent and hol… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: I deny its truth, and claim mine from an eternal, omnipotent and holy Creator, and personal Father, not simply an eviges Sein--eternal state of being--but something infinitely and incomprehensibly more exalted." Who acts: I. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, L
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 32

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I deny its truth, and claim mine from an eternal, omnipotent and holy Creator, and personal Father, not simply an eviges Sein--eternal state of being--but something infinitely and incomprehensibly more exalted."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** deny, claim, exalt · **To what, where:** truth, mine, eternal

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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 (I), 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:pg74323:5:32
# text = I deny its truth, and claim mine from an eternal, omnipotent and holy Creator, and personal Father, not simply an eviges Sein--eternal state of being--but something infinitely and incomprehensibly more exalted."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	deny	deny	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	claim	claim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eternal	eternal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	omnipotent	omnipotent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Creator	Creator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
23	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	eviges	evige	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	appos	_	_
26	Sein	Sein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	appos	_	_
35	infinitely	infinitely	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	incomprehensibly	incomprehensibly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	_
39	exalted	exalt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deny** | present | I | argument's truth |  |  |  | personal Father *parataxis* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent truth=Eventuality |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | present |  | mine |  | a eternal and omnipotent and holy Creator |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent my=Topic |
| 3 | **exalt** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | incomprehensibly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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