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title: Under the pretext that something had been omitted, the stranger shuf… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the pretext that something had been omitted, the stranger shuffled again; but, to his terror, the death-lot fell, not upon Schlosser, but his own friend. Who acts: pretext, stranger, death lot. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 32

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Under the pretext that something had been omitted, the stranger shuffled again; but, to his terror, the death-lot fell, not upon Schlosser, but his own friend.

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**Who acts:** pretext, stranger, death lot · **What happens:** omit, shuffle, fall · **To what, where:** something, pretext, own friend, Schlosser

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretext, stranger, death lot), 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:pg74323:21:32
# text = Under the pretext that something had been omitted, the stranger shuffled again; but, to his terror, the death-lot fell, not upon Schlosser, but his own friend.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pretext	pretext	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	omitted	omit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shuffled	shuffle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Schlosser	Schlosser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **omit** | past · perfect · passive | the pretext *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **shuffle** | past | the stranger |  |  | the pretext | again |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under pretext=Trajectory |
| 3 | **fall** | past | the death lot | stranger's own friend |  | Schlosser |  | to stranger's terror | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon schlosser=Location |

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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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