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title: For some days the holy sisters bore this lamentable disturbance; but… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: For some days the holy sisters bore this lamentable disturbance; but at last one morning one of the nuns whispered in fear to her neighbour, "That is certainly the Ursel!" Who acts: holy sisters, That. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 25

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For some days the holy sisters bore this lamentable disturbance; but at last one morning one of the nuns whispered in fear to her neighbour, "That is certainly the Ursel!"

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**Who acts:** holy sisters, That · **What happens:** bear, whisper, be · **To what, where:** lamentable disturbance, one, neighbour, fear, Ursel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (holy sisters, That), 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:pg74323:13:25
# text = For some days the holy sisters bore this lamentable disturbance; but at last one morning one of the nuns whispered in fear to her neighbour, "That is certainly the Ursel!"
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	lamentable	lamentable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	disturbance	disturbance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	nuns	nun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
21	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Ursel	Ursel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past | the holy sisters | this lamentable disturbance |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disturbance=Patient |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: express* | past | the holy sisters *not said here* | one at last one morning | nun's neighbour | fear |  | of the nuns | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to neighbour=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | the Ursel |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |

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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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