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title: But the monk, so soon as he had fulfilled his contract, disappeared,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But the monk, so soon as he had fulfilled his contract, disappeared, and even gratitude could find no trace of him. Who acts: monk. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14, 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 14, sentence 19

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But the monk, so soon as he had fulfilled his contract, disappeared, and even gratitude could find no trace of him.

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**Who acts:** monk · **What happens:** fulfil, find, contract · **To what, where:** contract, trace

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monk), 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:pg74323:15:19
# text = But the monk, so soon as he had fulfilled his contract, disappeared, and even gratitude could find no trace of him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	contract	contract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	disappeared	disappeared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fulfil** | past · perfect | monk | monk's contract |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | could | the monk | no trace of gratitude |  |  |  | gratitude *nsubj* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic |
| 3 | **contract** |  | monk |  |  |  |  |  | nom contract «communication transitive»: 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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