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title: And when morning dawned, the sun illuminated only a shapeless mass o… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And when morning dawned, the sun illuminated only a shapeless mass of ruins, and on the ruins the conquerors knelt and thanked heaven for the given strength. Who acts: sun, conquerors. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14, with its dep
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 31

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And when morning dawned, the sun illuminated only a shapeless mass of ruins, and on the ruins the conquerors knelt and thanked heaven for the given strength.

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**Who acts:** sun, conquerors · **What happens:** dawn, illuminate, kneel, thank, give · **To what, where:** sun, shapeless mass, ruins, heaven

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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 (sun, conquerors), 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:pg74323:15:31
# text = And when morning dawned, the sun illuminated only a shapeless mass of ruins, and on the ruins the conquerors knelt and thanked heaven for the given strength.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	dawned	dawn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	shapeless	shapeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	conquerors	conqueror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dawn** | participle |  | the sun |  |  | morning |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **illuminate** | participle | the sun *not said here* | a shapeless mass of ruins |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Destination |
| 3 | **kneel** | past | the conquerors |  |  | the ruins |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ruin=Location |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the conquerors *not said here* | heaven |  |  |  | for the given strength | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme for strength=Attribute |
| 5 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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