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title: Walpurgisnacht arrived, the widow stood on the balcony of her house… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Walpurgisnacht arrived, the widow stood on the balcony of her house and invoked the demons and witches, who swept through the night, which rested black as destruction on the mountains, heavy as the day of wrath and vengeance. Who acts: Walpurgisnacht, widow, demons. A sentence of «Legends and tales 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 115

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Walpurgisnacht arrived, the widow stood on the balcony of her house and invoked the demons and witches, who swept through the night, which rested black as destruction on the mountains, heavy as the day of wrath and vengeance.

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**Who acts:** Walpurgisnacht, widow, demons · **What happens:** arrive, stand, invoke, sweep, rest · **To what, where:** balcony, demons, mountains

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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 (Walpurgisnacht, widow, demons), 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:pg74323:12:116
# text = Walpurgisnacht arrived, the widow stood on the balcony of her house and invoked the demons and witches, who swept through the night, which rested black as destruction on the mountains, heavy as the day of wrath and vengeance.
1	Walpurgisnacht	Walpurgisnacht	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	invoked	invoke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
28	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Walpurgisnacht |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the widow |  |  | the balcony of Walpurgisnacht's house |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on balcony=Location |
| 3 | **invoke** | past | the widow *not said here* | the demons and witches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sweep** | past | the demons and witches |  |  |  | night |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **rest** | past | the demons and witches |  |  | the mountains |  | as destruction; black *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mountain=Location |

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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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