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title: You desecrated the holiest; virtue and innocence you have made the t… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: You desecrated the holiest; virtue and innocence you have made the tools of vice; you have stolen the _monstrance_ from the altar; you swore a false oath before the altar of the Highest. Who acts: You. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 71

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You desecrated the holiest; virtue and innocence you have made the tools of vice; you have stolen the \_monstrance\_ from the altar; you swore a false oath before the altar of the Highest.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** desecrate, make, steal, swear · **To what, where:** holiest, tools, you, altar, false oath

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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 (You), 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:pg74323:20:71
# text = You desecrated the holiest; virtue and innocence you have made the tools of vice; you have stolen the _monstrance_ from the altar; you swore a false oath before the altar of the Highest.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	desecrated	desecrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	holiest	holey	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	innocence	innocence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	vice	vice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	monstrance	monstrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	before	before	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Highest	Highest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desecrate** | past | You | the holiest |  |  |  | virtue and innocence *obl* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holey=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present · perfect | you | the tools of vice |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Product |
| 3 | **steal** | present · perfect · passive |  | you |  | the altar |  | the \_ monstrance *obj* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary monstrance=Theme |
| 4 | **swear** | past | you | a false oath |  |  | before the altar of the Highest |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality |

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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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