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title: "Nurse Magda has promised me never to leave her, and her foster-sist… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "Nurse Magda has promised me never to leave her, and her foster-sister Alice, who is strongly attached to her, will be of great assistance in watching over her as they both grow older. Who acts: foster sister, parents. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Histo
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 89

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"Nurse Magda has promised me never to leave her, and her foster-sister Alice, who is strongly attached to her, will be of great assistance in watching over her as they both grow older.

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**Who acts:** foster sister, parents · **What happens:** promise, not leave, attach, be, watch, grow · **To what, where:** Nurse, Germany, Alice

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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 (foster sister, parents), 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:pg74323:18:89
# text = "Nurse Magda has promised me never to leave her, and her foster-sister Alice, who is strongly attached to her, will be of great assistance in watching over her as they both grow older.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Magda	Magda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
17	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
31	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	both	both	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
39	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | Nurse | Germany |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **leave** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | nurse |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **attach** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Alice | nurse |  |  | strongly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to she=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future | nurse's foster sister |  |  |  |  | of great assistance | tree rules |
| 5 | **watch** *in a quote* | gerund | nurse's foster sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over nurse | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location |
| 6 | **grow** *in a quote* | present | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  | both, old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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