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title: [2] _Maien_--green branches of the birch used to deck the May-pole,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: [2] _Maien_--green branches of the birch used to deck the May-pole, and in Thuringia and other parts of Germany the churches at Pentecost. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, 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 9, sentence 32

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\[2\] \_Maien\_--green branches of the birch used to deck the May-pole, and in Thuringia and other parts of Germany the churches at Pentecost.

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**What happens:** use, deck · **To what, where:** birch, May pole, Maien

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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: 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:pg74323:10:32
# text = [2] _Maien_--green branches of the birch used to deck the May-pole, and in Thuringia and other parts of Germany the churches at Pentecost.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Maien	Maien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	deck	deck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Thuringia	Thuringia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	parataxis	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Pentecost	Pentecost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | the birch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **deck** | to-infinitive |  | the May pole |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pole=Destination |

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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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