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title: The happy father bestowed gifts lavishly, and instituted an annual _… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The happy father bestowed gifts lavishly, and instituted an annual _Volksfest_, and called his castle Questenberg. Who acts: happy father. 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 34

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The happy father bestowed gifts lavishly, and instituted an annual \_Volksfest\_, and called his castle Questenberg.

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**Who acts:** happy father · **What happens:** bestow, institute, call · **To what, where:** gifts, annual Volksfest, castle · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happy father), 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:pg74323:10:34
# text = The happy father bestowed gifts lavishly, and instituted an annual _Volksfest_, and called his castle Questenberg.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	lavishly	lavishly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	instituted	institute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Volksfest	Volksfest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	Questenberg	Questenberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bestow** | past | the happy father | gifts |  |  |  | lavishly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **institute** | participle | the happy father *not said here* | a annual Volksfest |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volksfest=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | past | the happy father *not said here* | father's castle |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent castle=Recipient |

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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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