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title: I come and sit here when alone, where I can look out on the mountain… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: I come and sit here when alone, where I can look out on the mountains, and read them and seek consolation, but find none. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 34

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I come and sit here when alone, where I can look out on the mountains, and read them and seek consolation, but find none.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** come, sit, look out, read, seek, find · **To what, where:** mountains, consolation, none

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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 (I), 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:pg74323:18:34
# text = I come and sit here when alone, where I can look out on the mountains, and read them and seek consolation, but find none.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	consolation	consolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | present | I *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look out** | can | I |  |  | the mountains |  |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **read** | infinitive |  | mountains *= mountain* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 5 | **seek** | infinitive |  | consolation |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consolation=Theme |
| 6 | **find** | infinitive | I *not said here* | none |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic |

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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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