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title: These primeval mountaineers were most disturbed by a wild and powerf… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: These primeval mountaineers were most disturbed by a wild and powerful monastic tribe of giant size and strength, who frequently broke into the mountains, plundered their huts, murdered children, women, and old men, and led away the strong men into slavery. Who acts: wild monastic tribe, strength. A
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 46

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These primeval mountaineers were most disturbed by a wild and powerful monastic tribe of giant size and strength, who frequently broke into the mountains, plundered their huts, murdered children, women, and old men, and led away the strong men into slavery.

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**Who acts:** wild monastic tribe, strength · **What happens:** disturb, break, plunder, murder, lead away · **To what, where:** primeval mountaineers, mountains, huts, children, strong men, slavery

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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 (wild monastic tribe, strength), 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:pg74323:11:46
# text = These primeval mountaineers were most disturbed by a wild and powerful monastic tribe of giant size and strength, who frequently broke into the mountains, plundered their huts, murdered children, women, and old men, and led away the strong men into slavery.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	primeval	primeval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mountaineers	mountaineer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	monastic	monastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	plundered	plunder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	murdered	murder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
32	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
42	away	away	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
46	into	into	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disturb** | past · passive | a wild monastic tribe of giant size and strength | this primeval mountaineers |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **break** | past | strength |  |  |  |  | into the mountains *result*; frequently *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into mountain=Result |
| 3 | **plunder** | past | a wild monastic tribe of giant size and strength *not said here* | mountaineers's huts |  |  |  | old men *obl* | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Source |
| 4 | **murder** | past | a wild monastic tribe of giant size and strength *not said here* | children and women |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 5 | **lead away** | past | a wild monastic tribe of giant size and strength *not said here* | the strong men |  | slavery |  | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme into slavery=Destination |

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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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