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title: [8] _Tut Ursel_--Tooting Ursula--the nun who broke her vow. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: [8] _Tut Ursel_--Tooting Ursula--the nun who broke her vow. Who acts: nun, Ursula. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 104

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\[8\] \_Tut Ursel\_--Tooting Ursula--the nun who broke her vow.

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**Who acts:** nun, Ursula · **What happens:** toot, nun, break, vow · **To what, where:** vow, 8

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nun, Ursula), 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:pg74323:19:104
# text = [8] _Tut Ursel_--Tooting Ursula--the nun who broke her vow.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Tut	Tut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	Ursel	Ursel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Tooting	toot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	nsubj	_	_
10	Ursula	Ursula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	nun	nun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toot** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **nun** |  |  |  |  |  |  | Ursula *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** | past | the nun | Ursula's vow |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vow=Patient |
| 5 | **vow** |  | Ursula |  |  |  |  |  | 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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