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title: The impostor seeks to deceive honest folk with her pretended wedding… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The impostor seeks to deceive honest folk with her pretended wedding ring and tales of lost luggage!' Who acts: impostor, lost luggage. 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 49

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The impostor seeks to deceive honest folk with her pretended wedding ring and tales of lost luggage!'

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**Who acts:** impostor, lost luggage · **What happens:** seek, deceive, pretend, lose, tell · **To what, where:** honest folk · **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 (impostor, lost luggage), 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:pg74323:5:49
# text = The impostor seeks to deceive honest folk with her pretended wedding ring and tales of lost luggage!'
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	impostor	impostor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seeks	seek	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	luggage	luggage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present | the impostor |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **deceive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the impostor *not said here* | honest folk |  |  |  | with impostor's pretended wedding ring and tales of lost luggage | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Patient |
| 3 | **pretend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tell** |  | lost luggage |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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