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title: The Duke besought the Pope to recognise him as the heir to the ducal… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Duke besought the Pope to recognise him as the heir to the ducal throne, offering a heavy bribe. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 151

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The Duke besought the Pope to recognise him as the heir to the ducal throne, offering a heavy bribe.

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**Who acts:** Duke · **What happens:** beseech, recognise, offer · **To what, where:** Pope, Duke, heavy bribe

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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:pg74323:20:151
# text = The Duke besought the Pope to recognise him as the heir to the ducal throne, offering a heavy bribe.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	besought	beseech	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Pope	Pope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	ducal	ducal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bribe	bribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beseech** | past | the Duke | the Pope |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **recognise** | to-infinitive | the Duke *not said here* | Duke |  |  |  | as the heir to the ducal throne | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus as heir=Attribute |
| 3 | **offer** | gerund | the Duke *not said here* | a heavy bribe |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bribe=Theme |

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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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