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title: According to some authorities, he may only rest Christmas night, and… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: According to some authorities, he may only rest Christmas night, and then only when he finds a plough in the field; only on that may he sit down. Who acts: wanderer. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12, with its dependency tree and th
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 40

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According to some authorities, he may only rest Christmas night, and then only when he finds a plough in the field; only on that may he sit down.

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**Who acts:** wanderer · **What happens:** accord, rest, find, sit down · **To what, where:** plough, field, that

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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 (wanderer), 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:pg74323:13:40
# text = According to some authorities, he may only rest Christmas night, and then only when he finds a plough in the field; only on that may he sit down.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	plough	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	obl	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
31	down	down	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rest** | may | wanderer |  |  |  | night | accord some authorities | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | present | wanderer | a plough |  | the field | then |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plough=Topic |
| 4 | **sit down** | may | wanderer |  |  | that |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on that=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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