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title: Odin, or Wodan, was the god, too, of armies, and always went out fro… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Odin, or Wodan, was the god, too, of armies, and always went out from Walhalla at the head of his ghostly array, while his nine Walküren conducted the fallen heroes back to Walhalla. Who acts: Odin, nine. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., p
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 46

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Odin, or Wodan, was the god, too, of armies, and always went out from Walhalla at the head of his ghostly array, while his nine Walküren conducted the fallen heroes back to Walhalla.

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**Who acts:** Odin, nine · **What happens:** be, go out, conduct, fall · **To what, where:** god, Walhalla, fallen heroes

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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 (Odin, nine), 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:pg74323:13:46
# text = Odin, or Wodan, was the god, too, of armies, and always went out from Walhalla at the head of his ghostly array, while his nine Walküren conducted the fallen heroes back to Walhalla.
1	Odin	Odin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Wodan	Wodan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Walhalla	Walhalla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	ghostly	ghostly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	array	array	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nsubj	_	_
32	Walküren	Walküren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
37	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Walhalla	Walhalla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Odin or Wodan | the god and armies |  |  |  | armies *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go out** | past |  |  |  | Walhalla |  | at the head of Walhalla's ghostly array; always, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **conduct** | past | Walhalla's nine | the fallen heroes |  |  |  | Walküren *nsubj* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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