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title: Wodan becomes the foul fiend, then the godless Hunter, and the Wande… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Wodan becomes the foul fiend, then the godless Hunter, and the Wandering Jew. Who acts: Wodan. 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 clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 36

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Wodan becomes the foul fiend, then the godless Hunter, and the Wandering Jew.

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**Who acts:** Wodan · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** foul fiend

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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 (Wodan), 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:pg74323:13:36
# text = Wodan becomes the foul fiend, then the godless Hunter, and the Wandering Jew.
1	Wodan	Wodan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	foul	foul	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fiend	fiend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	godless	godless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Wandering	Wandering	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Jew	Jew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | Wodan | the foul fiend |  |  |  | the Wandering Jew *parataxis* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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