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title: Every seven years the Huntsman passes over the seven mining towns of… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Every seven years the Huntsman passes over the seven mining towns of the Harz, and woe to him who calls after him. Who acts: seven years, woe. 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 c
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 41

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Every seven years the Huntsman passes over the seven mining towns of the Harz, and woe to him who calls after him.

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**Who acts:** seven years, woe · **What happens:** pass, call · **To what, where:** woe, seven mining towns · **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 (seven years, woe), 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:pg74323:13:41
# text = Every seven years the Huntsman passes over the seven mining towns of the Harz, and woe to him who calls after him.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Huntsman	Huntsman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	mining	mining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Harz	Harz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | present | every seven years | woe to Huntsman |  | the seven mining towns of the Harz |  | the Huntsman *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over town=Location |
| 2 | **call** | present | woe to Huntsman |  |  |  | after Huntsman |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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