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title: Oblivion at last sits green a couple of centuries in this solitude,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Oblivion at last sits green a couple of centuries in this solitude, till it is chosen as the hiding-place of a sinful love, and wild tales came to be told among the simple mountaineers of a White Lady who haunted the castle. Who acts: Oblivion, wild tales, simple mountaineers. A sentence of «Legends
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 12

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Oblivion at last sits green a couple of centuries in this solitude, till it is chosen as the hiding-place of a sinful love, and wild tales came to be told among the simple mountaineers of a White Lady who haunted the castle.

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**Who acts:** Oblivion, wild tales, simple mountaineers · **What happens:** sit, choose, come, tell, haunt · **To what, where:** green couple, solitude, couple, simple mountaineers, castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oblivion, wild tales, simple mountaineers), 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:pg74323:18:12
# text = Oblivion at last sits green a couple of centuries in this solitude, till it is chosen as the hiding-place of a sinful love, and wild tales came to be told among the simple mountaineers of a White Lady who haunted the castle.
1	Oblivion	Oblivion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	solitude	solitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	sinful	sinful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
35	among	among	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	mountaineers	mountaineer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	iobj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	haunted	haunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	parataxis	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | Oblivion at last | a green couple of centuries |  | this solitude |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent couple=Theme in solitude=Location |
| 2 | **choose** | present · passive |  | couple |  |  |  | as the hiding place of a sinful love | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | wild tales |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive · passive | wild tales *not said here* |  | the simple mountaineers of a White Lady |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: mountaineer=Recipient |
| 5 | **haunt** | past | the simple mountaineers of a White Lady | the castle |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus castle=Experiencer |

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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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