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title: "You may imagine the difficulties of travelling in time of war, with… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "You may imagine the difficulties of travelling in time of war, with soldiers being transported to active service, and the sick and wounded to hospitals; and we lost our luggage, consisting only of two trunks. Who acts: You, we. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Laude
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 46

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"You may imagine the difficulties of travelling in time of war, with soldiers being transported to active service, and the sick and wounded to hospitals; and we lost our luggage, consisting only of two trunks.

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**Who acts:** You, we · **What happens:** imagine, transport, lose, consist · **To what, where:** difficulties, soldiers, active service, luggage, two trunks

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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), 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:pg74323:5:46
# text = "You may imagine the difficulties of travelling in time of war, with soldiers being transported to active service, and the sick and wounded to hospitals; and we lost our luggage, consisting only of two trunks.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	transported	transport	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
33	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	luggage	luggage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	consisting	consist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
37	only	only	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** *in a quote* | may | You | the difficulties of travelling |  |  | time |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot difficulty=Theme |
| 2 | **transport** *in a quote* | gerund · passive |  | soldiers |  | active service |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to service=Destination |
| 3 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | we | our luggage |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luggage=Eventuality |
| 4 | **consist** *in a quote* | gerund | we *not said here* | two trunks |  |  |  |  | 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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