--- title: He soon had a huge bundle of sticks bound together for his weary, be… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: He soon had a huge bundle of sticks bound together for his weary, bent back--bent from the burden of toil and of years--and a luxuriance of the healing woodroofs made gathering them a light task; but when he reached the town everybody said, "What's the need of wood now, when it is summer?" Who acts: --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/14/61/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [Legends and Tales., part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/14/) / 61 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 61 He soon had a huge bundle of sticks bound together for his weary, bent back--bent from the burden of toil and of years--and a luxuriance of the healing woodroofs made gathering them a light task; but when he reached the town everybody said, "What's the need of wood now, when it is summer?" **Who acts:** monk, luxuriance, everybody · **What happens:** have, bind, bend back, bend, make, gather · **To what, where:** huge bundle, sticks, burden, town, need, summer · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, luxuriance, everybody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:14:62 # text = He soon had a huge bundle of sticks bound together for his weary, bent back--bent from the burden of toil and of years--and a luxuriance of the healing woodroofs made gathering them a light task; but when he reached the town everybody said, "What's the need of wood now, when it is summer?" 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bundle bundle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 bound bind VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 together together ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 bent bend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 16 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 -- -- PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 bent bend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 burden burden NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 toil toil NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 -- -- PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 luxuriance luxuriance NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 healing healing NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 woodroofs woodroof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 35 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 gathering gather VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 xcomp _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 42 but but CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 43 when when SCONJ WRB _ 45 mark _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 advcl _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 49 nsubj _ _ 49 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 51 " " PUNCT `` _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 55 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 cop _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 need need NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 ccomp _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod _ _ 58 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 55 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 60 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 63 advmod _ _ 61 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 62 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 63 cop _ _ 63 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ? ? PUNCT . _ 63 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 65 " " PUNCT '' _ 63 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | monk | a huge bundle of sticks | | | | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Patient | | 2 | **bind** | participle | | sticks *not said here* | | | | for monk's weary; together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **bend back** | participle | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **bend** | participle | | | | the burden of toil and years | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from burden=Location | | 5 | **make** | past | a luxuriance of the healing woodroofs | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **gather** | gerund | a luxuriance of the healing woodroofs *not said here* | sticks *= stick* | | | | a light task *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary task=Theme | | 7 | **reach** | past | monk | the town | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme | | 8 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | everybody | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | the need | | | now | of wood; What *nsubj* | tree rules | | 10 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | luxuriance | summer | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **burden** | | | toil | | | | | nom burden «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/14/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/14/62/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/14/)