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title: It is only permitted me once a year to be at this spot; and whoever… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: It is only permitted me once a year to be at this spot; and whoever meets me here and deserves it as thou, him I make happy--if wealth can make him happy. Who acts: whoever, I, wealth. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its depe
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 103

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It is only permitted me once a year to be at this spot; and whoever meets me here and deserves it as thou, him I make happy--if wealth can make him happy.

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**Who acts:** whoever, I, wealth · **What happens:** permit, be, meet, deserve, make · **To what, where:** troubled, spot, me, voice

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whoever, I, wealth), 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:pg74323:10:104
# text = It is only permitted me once a year to be at this spot; and whoever meets me here and deserves it as thou, him I make happy--if wealth can make him happy.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	permitted	permit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	deserves	deserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **permit** | present · passive |  | troubled |  |  |  | me *obj*; once *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme i=Location |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | this spot |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | present | whoever | me |  | here |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **deserve** | present | whoever *not said here* | troubled |  |  |  | as thou; voice *obl* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | present | I |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | wealth | voice |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |

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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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