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title: And the petition was heard, for midnight was hardly past before the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And the petition was heard, for midnight was hardly past before the knights left behind in the Burg had been overpowered by the strong arms of the avengers of innocence, and thrust in the deepest dungeon. Who acts: strong arms. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 29

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And the petition was heard, for midnight was hardly past before the knights left behind in the Burg had been overpowered by the strong arms of the avengers of innocence, and thrust in the deepest dungeon.

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**Who acts:** strong arms · **What happens:** hear, be, leave behind, overpower · **To what, where:** petition, knights, Burg

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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 (strong arms), 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:pg74323:15:29
# text = And the petition was heard, for midnight was hardly past before the knights left behind in the Burg had been overpowered by the strong arms of the avengers of innocence, and thrust in the deepest dungeon.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	past	past	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Burg	Burg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	overpowered	overpower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	avengers	avenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	innocence	innocence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
38	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · passive |  | the petition |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | midnight | hardly, past *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave behind** | participle |  | the knights *not said here* |  |  |  | in the Burg *result*; behind *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in burg=Result |
| 4 | **overpower** | past · perfect · passive | the strong arms of the avengers of innocence | the knights |  |  |  | thrust in the deepest dungeon *obl* | 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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