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title: Every day they went with the dawn to the spot where the brothers lay… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Every day they went with the dawn to the spot where the brothers lay in their deep slumber, and night found them still there in tears. Who acts: rivals, brothers, night. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1, with its dependency tree and
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 129

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Every day they went with the dawn to the spot where the brothers lay in their deep slumber, and night found them still there in tears.

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**Who acts:** rivals, brothers, night · **What happens:** go, lay, find, slumber · **To what, where:** spot, deep slumber, rivals, tears

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (rivals, brothers, night), 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:pg74323:2:129
# text = Every day they went with the dawn to the spot where the brothers lay in their deep slumber, and night found them still there in tears.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | rivals *= rival* |  |  | the spot | dawn; day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lay** | present | the brothers |  |  | rivals's deep slumber |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in slumber=Destination |
| 3 | **find** | past | night | rivals *= rival* |  | tears; there | still |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 4 | **slumber** |  | rivals *= rival* |  |  |  |  |  | nom slumber «state intransitive»: 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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