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title: But now a rich earl sought Jutta's hand, and the lord of the Felsenb… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But now a rich earl sought Jutta's hand, and the lord of the Felsenburg promised this suitor his daughter, because his debts were so great that only a wealthy son-in-law could save his estates. Who acts: rich earl, lord, debts, wealthy son. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 24

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But now a rich earl sought Jutta's hand, and the lord of the Felsenburg promised this suitor his daughter, because his debts were so great that only a wealthy son-in-law could save his estates.

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**Who acts:** rich earl, lord, debts, wealthy son · **What happens:** seek, promise, be, save · **To what, where:** hand, suitor, daughter, estates

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich earl, lord, debts, wealthy son), 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:pg74323:17:24
# text = But now a rich earl sought Jutta's hand, and the lord of the Felsenburg promised this suitor his daughter, because his debts were so great that only a wealthy son-in-law could save his estates.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	earl	earl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Jutta	Jutta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Felsenburg	Felsenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	suitor	suitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	debts	debt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	estates	estate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | a rich earl | Jutta's hand |  |  | now |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the lord of the Felsenburg | this suitor | lord's daughter |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent suitor=Goal daughter=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | lord's debts |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **save** | could | a wealthy son in law | lord's estates |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent estate=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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