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title: To explain further, we must go back in our history to Eva's childhoo… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: To explain further, we must go back in our history to Eva's childhood, and her introduction to the court of Henry the Younger, Duke of Brunswick and his Duchess Maria von Wurtemberg. Who acts: we, Eva. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 73

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To explain further, we must go back in our history to Eva's childhood, and her introduction to the court of Henry the Younger, Duke of Brunswick and his Duchess Maria von Wurtemberg.

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**Who acts:** we, Eva · **What happens:** explain, go back, introduce · **To what, where:** history

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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 (we, Eva), 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:pg74323:18:73
# text = To explain further, we must go back in our history to Eva's childhood, and her introduction to the court of Henry the Younger, Duke of Brunswick and his Duchess Maria von Wurtemberg.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
3	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Younger	Younger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Brunswick	Brunswick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Maria	Maria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	19	conj	_	_
36	Wurtemberg	Wurtemberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go back** | must | we |  |  | our history to Eva's childhood |  | Eva's introduction to the court of Henry and Duke of Brunswick and Brunswick's Maria von *parataxis* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **introduce** |  | Eva |  |  |  |  | to the court of Henry and Duke of Brunswick | nom introduction «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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