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title: Bismarck has set the Germans free, and cleansed the moral atmosphere… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Bismarck has set the Germans free, and cleansed the moral atmosphere of the whole empire, sent the Jesuits adrift, and put a bayonet into the hands of every eighty men in a hundred to keep them out." A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 65

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Bismarck has set the Germans free, and cleansed the moral atmosphere of the whole empire, sent the Jesuits adrift, and put a bayonet into the hands of every eighty men in a hundred to keep them out."

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**What happens:** set, cleanse, send, put, keep out · **To what, where:** Bismarck, moral atmosphere, Jesuits, bayonet, hands

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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: 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:pg74323:12:66
# text = Bismarck has set the Germans free, and cleansed the moral atmosphere of the whole empire, sent the Jesuits adrift, and put a bayonet into the hands of every eighty men in a hundred to keep them out."
1	Bismarck	Bismarck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Germans	German	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	cleansed	cleanse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	atmosphere	atmosphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Jesuits	Jesuit	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	adrift	adrift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bayonet	bayonet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
32	eighty	eighty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | present · perfect · passive |  | Bismarck |  |  |  | the Germans *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **cleanse** | past |  | the moral atmosphere of the whole empire |  |  |  |  | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atmosphere=Patient |
| 3 | **send** | past |  | the Jesuits |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jesuit=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive |  | a bayonet |  | the hands of every eighty men in a hundred |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bayonet=Goal |
| 5 | **keep out** | to-infinitive |  | Jesuits *= jesuit* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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