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title: The Abbess, too, who managed the details of your funeral, and the ar… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Abbess, too, who managed the details of your funeral, and the artistic priest who made your wax effigy and the plague-spots with ink on your white face and hands, are both bound by the most solemn oaths. Who acts: Abbess, artistic priest, solemn oaths. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Har
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 63

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The Abbess, too, who managed the details of your funeral, and the artistic priest who made your wax effigy and the plague-spots with ink on your white face and hands, are both bound by the most solemn oaths.

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**Who acts:** Abbess, artistic priest, solemn oaths · **What happens:** manage, make, bind, detail · **To what, where:** details, wax effigy, white face, artistic priest, funeral

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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 (Abbess, artistic priest, solemn oaths), 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:pg74323:18:63
# text = The Abbess, too, who managed the details of your funeral, and the artistic priest who made your wax effigy and the plague-spots with ink on your white face and hands, are both bound by the most solemn oaths.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Abbess	Abbess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	artistic	artistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	effigy	effigy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
38	both	both	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	43	advmod	_	_
43	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	oaths	oath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | past | the Abbess | the details of your funeral |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | the artistic priest | your wax effigy and the plague spots with ink |  | your white face and hands |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effigy=Product |
| 3 | **bind** | present · passive | the solemn oaths | the artistic priest |  |  |  | both *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **detail** |  |  | your funeral |  |  |  |  | nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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