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title: Nevertheless it--is--no--easy matter--to accomplish. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless it--is--no--easy matter--to accomplish. Who acts: easy matter. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13, 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 13, sentence 19

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Nevertheless it--is--no--easy matter--to accomplish.

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**Who acts:** easy matter · **What happens:** be, accomplish

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (easy matter), 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:pg74323:14:19
# text = Nevertheless it--is--no--easy matter--to accomplish.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no easy matter |  |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **accomplish** | to-infinitive | no easy matter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: 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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