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title: _" and before the bewildered man can respond, "_In Ewigkeit! — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: _" and before the bewildered man can respond, "_In Ewigkeit! Who acts: bewildered man. 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 72

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\_" and before the bewildered man can respond, "\_In Ewigkeit!

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**Who acts:** bewildered man · **What happens:** bewilder, respond · **To what, where:** Ewigkeit

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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 (bewildered man), 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:pg74323:10:72
# text = _" and before the bewildered man can respond, "_In Ewigkeit!
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
4	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	respond	respond	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	In	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ewigkeit	Ewigkeit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bewilder** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **respond** *speech: other* *in a quote* | can | the bewildered man |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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