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title: But the mill, an inheritance from his great-great-grandfather, was i… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But the mill, an inheritance from his great-great-grandfather, was in a tumble-down condition, and when the wind blew from the north or west the sweeps stood motionless, for mountain and forest intercepted the "breath of God." Who acts: mill, wind, sweeps, mountain. A sentence of «Legends and tales 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 18

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But the mill, an inheritance from his great-great-grandfather, was in a tumble-down condition, and when the wind blew from the north or west the sweeps stood motionless, for mountain and forest intercepted the "breath of God."

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**Who acts:** mill, wind, sweeps, mountain · **What happens:** be, blow, stand, intercept · **To what, where:** down condition, breath

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mill, wind, sweeps, mountain), 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:pg74323:11:18
# text = But the mill, an inheritance from his great-great-grandfather, was in a tumble-down condition, and when the wind blew from the north or west the sweeps stood motionless, for mountain and forest intercepted the "breath of God."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	_	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	tumble	tumble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	down	down	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	west	west	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sweeps	sweep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
36	motionless	motionless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	intercepted	intercept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the mill |  |  | a down condition |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **blow** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  | from the north | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from north=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the sweeps |  |  |  |  | motionless, west *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **intercept** | past | mountain and forest | the breath of God |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |

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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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