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title: Another story is that the screech-owl is a nun who was false to her… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Another story is that the screech-owl is a nun who was false to her vows, and left her convent to follow Hackelberg. Who acts: story, nun. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 31

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Another story is that the screech-owl is a nun who was false to her vows, and left her convent to follow Hackelberg.

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**Who acts:** story, nun · **What happens:** be, leave, follow, vow · **To what, where:** nun, convent, Hackelberg

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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 (story, nun), 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:pg74323:13:31
# text = Another story is that the screech-owl is a nun who was false to her vows, and left her convent to follow Hackelberg.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	screech	screech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nun	nun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	vows	vow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
25	Hackelberg	Hackelberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | another story | a nun |  |  |  | the screech owl *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | a nun |  |  |  |  | to nun's vows; false *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | past |  | nun's convent |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent convent=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | to-infinitive |  | Hackelberg |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hackelberg=Theme |
| 5 | **vow** |  | nun |  |  |  |  |  | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=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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