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title: Duke Henry had the broken-hearted girl--only twenty-three--buried in… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Duke Henry had the broken-hearted girl--only twenty-three--buried in the garden of the Staufenburg, returned to Court and insisted on a search of the castle. Who acts: Duke. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3, with its dependency tree
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 148

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Duke Henry had the broken-hearted girl--only twenty-three--buried in the garden of the Staufenburg, returned to Court and insisted on a search of the castle.

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**Who acts:** Duke · **What happens:** have, break, bury, return, insist, search · **To what, where:** broken hearted girl, garden, Court, search, castle

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke), 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:pg74323:20:148
# text = Duke Henry had the broken-hearted girl--only twenty-three--buried in the garden of the Staufenburg, returned to Court and insisted on a search of the castle.
1	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Staufenburg	Staufenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	insisted	insist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Duke | the broken hearted girl |  |  |  | twenty three *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **bury** | participle |  |  |  | the garden of the Staufenburg |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in garden=Destination |
| 4 | **return** | past |  |  | Court |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to court=Result |
| 5 | **insist** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  | a search of the castle |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **search** |  |  | the castle |  |  |  |  | nom search «act 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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