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title: The miner cannot gaze enough at the marvellous sight, crosses and re… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The miner cannot gaze enough at the marvellous sight, crosses and recrosses himself; the monk kneels at the golden altar and says an Ave Maria. Who acts: miner, monk, Ave Maria. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 65

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The miner cannot gaze enough at the marvellous sight, crosses and recrosses himself; the monk kneels at the golden altar and says an Ave Maria.

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**Who acts:** miner, monk, Ave Maria · **What happens:** not gaze, cross, recross, kneel, say · **To what, where:** miner, golden altar · **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 (miner, monk, Ave Maria), 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:pg74323:10:65
# text = The miner cannot gaze enough at the marvellous sight, crosses and recrosses himself; the monk kneels at the golden altar and says an Ave Maria.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	miner	miner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	gaze	gaze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	crosses	cross	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	recrosses	recross	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	kneels	kneel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Ave	Ave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Maria	Maria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **gaze** | can | the miner |  |  |  |  | at the marvellous sight; enough *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sight=Theme |
| 2 | **cross** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **recross** | present |  | miner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **kneel** | present | the monk |  |  | the golden altar |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at altar=Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a Ave Maria |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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