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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 32

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The Bürgermeister rose with official dignity, dismissed his colleagues with a wave of the hand, and the exhausted councillors were in the act of retiring, when the unhappy bridegroom rushed breathless into their midst.

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**Who acts:** Bürgermeister, exhausted councillors, unhappy bridegroom · **What happens:** rise, dismiss, be, retire, rush, wave · **To what, where:** colleagues, act, midst, hand

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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 (Bürgermeister, exhausted councillors, unhappy bridegroom), 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:pg74323:14:33
# text = The Bürgermeister rose with official dignity, dismissed his colleagues with a wave of the hand, and the exhausted councillors were in the act of retiring, when the unhappy bridegroom rushed breathless into their midst.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bürgermeister	Bürgermeister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	colleagues	colleague	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	exhausted	exhausted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	retiring	retire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	breathless	breathless	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the Bürgermeister |  |  |  |  | with official dignity | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dismiss** | past | the Bürgermeister *not said here* | assembly's colleagues |  |  |  | with a wave of the hand | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colleague=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the exhausted councillors |  |  | the act |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **retire** | gerund | the exhausted councillors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rush** | past | the unhappy bridegroom |  |  |  |  | into councillors's midst *result*; breathless *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into midst=Result |
| 6 | **wave** |  |  | the hand |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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