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title: "Under the ban of Kaiser and Pope!" cried Eva, wringing her hands in… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "Under the ban of Kaiser and Pope!" cried Eva, wringing her hands in despair. Who acts: Eva. 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 78

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"Under the ban of Kaiser and Pope!" cried Eva, wringing her hands in despair.

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**Who acts:** Eva · **What happens:** cry, wring, ban · **To what, where:** ban, hands, despair, Kaiser

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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 (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:pg74323:19:78
# text = "Under the ban of Kaiser and Pope!" cried Eva, wringing her hands in despair.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ban	ban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kaiser	Kaiser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Pope	Pope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	wringing	wring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Eva |  |  | the ban of Kaiser and Pope |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ban=Location |
| 2 | **wring** | gerund | Eva *not said here* | Kaiser's hands |  | despair |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in despair=Trajectory |
| 3 | **ban** *in a quote* |  |  | Kaiser and Pope |  |  |  |  | nom ban «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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