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title: He visits the ruins, probably nightly, but can only be seen every se… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He visits the ruins, probably nightly, but can only be seen every seven years by those who were born on St. John's Eve. His duty is to chastise idle and deceitful servants. Who acts: monk, seven years. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 58

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He visits the ruins, probably nightly, but can only be seen every seven years by those who were born on St. John's Eve. His duty is to chastise idle and deceitful servants.

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**Who acts:** monk, seven years · **What happens:** visit, see, bear, be · **To what, where:** ruins, duty, Eve. · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (monk, seven years), 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:pg74323:14:59
# text = He visits the ruins, probably nightly, but can only be seen every seven years by those who were born on St. John's Eve. His duty is to chastise idle and deceitful servants.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	visits	visit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	nightly	nightly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	nmod	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:desc	_	_
24	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	Eve.	Eve.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	chastise	chastise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
32	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | present | monk | the ruins |  |  |  | nightly *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruin=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **see** | can · passive | monk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bear** | past · passive |  | monk's duty |  | John  St.'s Eve. |  | who *nsubj:pass* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary duty=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | every seven years by those |  |  |  |  | idle servants *obj*; chastise *property* | tree rules |

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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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