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title: "I found such pleasure in the chase, that I besought God to permit m… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "I found such pleasure in the chase, that I besought God to permit me to hunt until the judgment-day. Who acts: visible form. 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 6

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"I found such pleasure in the chase, that I besought God to permit me to hunt until the judgment-day.

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**Who acts:** visible form · **What happens:** find, beseech, permit, hunt · **To what, where:** such pleasure, chase, God, visible form

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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 (visible form), 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:pg74323:13:6
# text = "I found such pleasure in the chase, that I besought God to permit me to hunt until the judgment-day.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	besought	beseech	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	until	until	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *in a quote* | past | the visible form of the hunter *= form* | such pleasure |  | the chase |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Topic |
| 2 | **beseech** *in a quote* | past | the visible form of the hunter *= form* | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **permit** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the visible form of the hunter *= form* *not said here* | the visible form of the hunter *= form* |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hunt** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the visible form of the hunter *= form* *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn hunt-35.1 «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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