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title: They raise the song of triumph and march to meet the royal conqueror… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: They raise the song of triumph and march to meet the royal conqueror, who leans upon his spear, and looks upon his advancing army without going forward to receive it. Who acts: tribes, royal conqueror, triumph. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tal
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 69

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They raise the song of triumph and march to meet the royal conqueror, who leans upon his spear, and looks upon his advancing army without going forward to receive it.

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**Who acts:** tribes, royal conqueror, triumph · **What happens:** raise, meet, lean, look, advance, go · **To what, where:** song, royal conqueror, spear, conqueror

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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 (tribes, royal conqueror, triumph), 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:pg74323:11:69
# text = They raise the song of triumph and march to meet the royal conqueror, who leans upon his spear, and looks upon his advancing army without going forward to receive it.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	raise	raise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	leans	lean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	advancing	advance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
29	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | present | tribes *= tribe* | the song of triumph and march |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | tribes *= tribe* *not said here* | the royal conqueror |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conqueror=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **lean** | present | the royal conqueror |  |  | enemy's spear |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon spear=Location |
| 4 | **look** | present |  |  |  |  |  | upon enemy's advancing army | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon army=Theme |
| 5 | **advance** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **receive** | to-infinitive |  | conqueror |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 8 | **sing** |  | triumph and march |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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