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title: And where the stumbling of thy horse once brought thee death, there… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And where the stumbling of thy horse once brought thee death, there shall thy ride end, there shalt thou stumble every night." Who acts: stumbling, ride end. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 63

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And where the stumbling of thy horse once brought thee death, there shall thy ride end, there shalt thou stumble every night."

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**Who acts:** stumbling, ride end · **What happens:** bring, stumble · **To what, where:** thee

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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 (stumbling, ride end), 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:pg74323:16:64
# text = And where the stumbling of thy horse once brought thee death, there shall thy ride end, there shalt thou stumble every night."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stumbling	stumbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
10	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obj	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
20	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stumble	stumble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | the stumbling of thy horse | thee |  |  |  | death *obj*; once *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thou=Destination death=Theme |
| 2 | **stumble** | shall | thy ride end |  |  | there; there | night | thou *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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