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title: And as the tempest with hollow moans and wails sweeps over the tree-… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And as the tempest with hollow moans and wails sweeps over the tree-tops, so the aged stranger lifted up his voice, and preached to the assembly the Christian faith with ever-increasing enthusiasm. Who acts: tempest, aged stranger, Christian faith. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mounta
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 3

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And as the tempest with hollow moans and wails sweeps over the tree-tops, so the aged stranger lifted up his voice, and preached to the assembly the Christian faith with ever-increasing enthusiasm.

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**Who acts:** tempest, aged stranger, Christian faith · **What happens:** sweep, lift up, preach, increase · **To what, where:** tree tops, voice, Christian faith, assembly, enthusiasm

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tempest, aged stranger, Christian faith), 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:pg74323:16:3
# text = And as the tempest with hollow moans and wails sweeps over the tree-tops, so the aged stranger lifted up his voice, and preached to the assembly the Christian faith with ever-increasing enthusiasm.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	moans	moan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wails	wail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	sweeps	sweep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	preached	preach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
34	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	increasing	increase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
38	enthusiasm	enthusiasm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | present | the tempest with hollow moans and wails |  |  | the tree tops |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over top=Trajectory |
| 2 | **lift up** | past | the aged stranger | stranger's voice |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 3 | **preach** *speech: other* | participle | the aged stranger *not said here* | the Christian faith | the assembly |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent faith=Topic to assembly=Recipient |
| 4 | **increase** | gerund | the Christian faith *not said here* | enthusiasm |  |  | ever |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer enthusiasm=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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