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title: The most delicious viands and oldest wines were served, and not till… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The most delicious viands and oldest wines were served, and not till a late hour did the merry party seek repose. Who acts: late hour. 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 92

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The most delicious viands and oldest wines were served, and not till a late hour did the merry party seek repose.

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**Who acts:** late hour · **What happens:** serve, do · **To what, where:** delicious viands, merry seek repose

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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 (late hour), 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:pg74323:15:92
# text = The most delicious viands and oldest wines were served, and not till a late hour did the merry party seek repose.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	viands	viand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	wines	wine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
13	till	till	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	seek	seek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	repose	repose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past · passive |  | the delicious viands and oldest wines |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **do** | past | a late hour | the merry seek repose |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repose=Eventuality |

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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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