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title: [1] Night before the first of May, when all evil spirits and witches… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: [1] Night before the first of May, when all evil spirits and witches, according to the legend, meet on the Brocken. Who acts: evil spirits. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 112

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\[1\] Night before the first of May, when all evil spirits and witches, according to the legend, meet on the Brocken.

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**Who acts:** evil spirits · **What happens:** accord, meet · **To what, where:** Brocken

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil spirits), 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:pg74323:12:113
# text = [1] Night before the first of May, when all evil spirits and witches, according to the legend, meet on the Brocken.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	case	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Brocken	Brocken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **meet** | infinitive | all evil spirits and witches |  |  | the Brocken | before the first of May; night |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «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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