--- title: Though this relation continued seven years, and ended only through E… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Though this relation continued seven years, and ended only through Eva's death, no one discovered the secret; he himself revealed it in his partial love for her only son, whom he sought to make his heir. Who acts: relation, one, Eva. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relation, one, Eva), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:18:66 # text = Though this relation continued seven years, and ended only through Eva's death, no one discovered the secret; he himself revealed it in his partial love for her only son, whom he sought to make his heir. 1 Though though SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 relation relation NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 11 through through ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 Eva Eva PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 17 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 discovered discover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 22 nmod:unmarked _ _ 24 revealed reveal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 partial partial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 obj _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 heir heir NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** | past | this relation | | | | year | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **end** | past | | | | Eva's death | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **discover** | past | no one | the secret | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic | | 4 | **reveal** | past | relation | secret | | relation's partial love | | for love; son *vocative* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **seek** | past | relation | son | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | relation *not said here* | relation's heir | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heir=Product | | 7 | **die** | | Eva | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **love** | | relation | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/18/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/18/67/) - ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/18/)