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title: Meanwhile tidings reach the Court at Wolfenbüttel that the retired C… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile tidings reach the Court at Wolfenbüttel that the retired Court lady has been attacked with a virulent plague on her homeward journey, and has expired after a painful illness of only a few hours. Who acts: Meanwhile tidings, Wolfenbüttel. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountai
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 108

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Meanwhile tidings reach the Court at Wolfenbüttel that the retired Court lady has been attacked with a virulent plague on her homeward journey, and has expired after a painful illness of only a few hours.

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**Who acts:** Meanwhile tidings, Wolfenbüttel · **What happens:** reach, attack, expire, journey · **To what, where:** Court, Wolfenbüttel, retired Court lady

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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 (Meanwhile tidings, Wolfenbüttel), 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:pg74323:19:108
# text = Meanwhile tidings reach the Court at Wolfenbüttel that the retired Court lady has been attacked with a virulent plague on her homeward journey, and has expired after a painful illness of only a few hours.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Wolfenbüttel	Wolfenbüttel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	retired	retired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	attacked	attack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	virulent	virulent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	expired	expire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **reach** | present | Meanwhile tidings | the Court |  | Wolfenbüttel |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent court=Theme at wolfenbüttel=Asset |
| 2 | **attack** | present · perfect · passive |  | the retired Court lady |  |  |  | with a virulent plague on Wolfenbüttel's homeward journey | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **expire** | present · perfect | Meanwhile tidings *not said here* |  |  |  | after a painful illness of a few hours |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **journey** |  | Wolfenbüttel |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act 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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