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title: They sprang to their feet, forced him to silence, and after a short… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: They sprang to their feet, forced him to silence, and after a short consultation voted unanimously that the blasphemer of their gods must die. Who acts: tops, short consultation, blasphemer. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15, with i
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 5

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They sprang to their feet, forced him to silence, and after a short consultation voted unanimously that the blasphemer of their gods must die.

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**Who acts:** tops, short consultation, blasphemer · **What happens:** spring, force, vote, die · **To what, where:** feet, stranger

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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 (tops, short consultation, blasphemer), 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:pg74323:16:5
# text = They sprang to their feet, forced him to silence, and after a short consultation voted unanimously that the blasphemer of their gods must die.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	consultation	consultation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	unanimously	unanimously	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	blasphemer	blasphemer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | tops *= top* |  |  | tops's feet |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination |
| 2 | **force** | past |  |  | stranger |  |  | silence *xcomp* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **vote** | past | a short consultation |  |  |  |  | unanimously *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **die** | must | the blasphemer of tops's gods |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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