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title: The priest at Gandershein who united us at the convent altar is boun… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The priest at Gandershein who united us at the convent altar is bound by his priestly vows, and the heavy bribe I gave him, to silence. Who acts: priest, priestly vows, heavy bribe, Gandershein. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1, wit
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 62

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The priest at Gandershein who united us at the convent altar is bound by his priestly vows, and the heavy bribe I gave him, to silence.

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**Who acts:** priest, priestly vows, heavy bribe, Gandershein · **What happens:** unite, bind, give, vow · **To what, where:** us, convent altar, priest, silence, Gandershein

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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 (priest, priestly vows, heavy bribe, Gandershein), 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:pg74323:18:62
# text = The priest at Gandershein who united us at the convent altar is bound by his priestly vows, and the heavy bribe I gave him, to silence.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Gandershein	Gandershein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	united	unite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	priestly	priestly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	vows	vow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bribe	bribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unite** | past | the priest at Gandershein | us |  | the convent altar |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 2 | **bind** | present · passive | Gandershein's priestly vows | the priest at Gandershein |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | past | the heavy bribe | silence | Gandershein |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **vow** |  | Gandershein |  |  |  |  |  | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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