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title: Unhappily my sinful wish was granted, and for four hundred and fifty… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Unhappily my sinful wish was granted, and for four hundred and fifty years I have hunted the same deer. Who acts: I, my. 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 7

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Unhappily my sinful wish was granted, and for four hundred and fifty years I have hunted the same deer.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** grant, hunt, wish · **To what, where:** sinful wish, same deer

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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 (I, my), 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:pg74323:13:7
# text = Unhappily my sinful wish was granted, and for four hundred and fifty years I have hunted the same deer.
1	Unhappily	unhappily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sinful	sinful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | past · passive |  | my sinful wish |  |  |  | unhappily *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** | present · perfect | I | the same deer |  |  | year |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme |
| 3 | **wish** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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