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title: He began again to move forward, singing that noblest hymn in the Ger… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He began again to move forward, singing that noblest hymn in the German language, which has been so perfectly translated by John Wesley, beginning-- Who acts: father, John. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency tree 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 88

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He began again to move forward, singing that noblest hymn in the German language, which has been so perfectly translated by John Wesley, beginning--

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**Who acts:** father, John · **What happens:** begin, move forward, sing, translate · **To what, where:** noblest hymn, German language

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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 (father, John), 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:pg74323:10:88
# text = He began again to move forward, singing that noblest hymn in the German language, which has been so perfectly translated by John Wesley, beginning--
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	noblest	noble	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl:agent	_	_
25	Wesley	Wesley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | father |  |  |  | again |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **move forward** | to-infinitive | father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | father *not said here* | that noblest hymn |  | the German language |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme |
| 4 | **translate** | present · perfect · passive | John | the German language |  |  |  | perfectly *property* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 5 | **begin** | gerund | father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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