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title: He took a walk into the country in order to seek relief for his oppr… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He took a walk into the country in order to seek relief for his oppressed heart for a few short hours. Who acts: ruin. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, 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 4, sentence 80

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He took a walk into the country in order to seek relief for his oppressed heart for a few short hours.

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**Who acts:** ruin · **What happens:** take, seek, oppress · **To what, where:** walk, country, relief

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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 (ruin), 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:pg74323:21:80
# text = He took a walk into the country in order to seek relief for his oppressed heart for a few short hours.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
12	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	oppressed	oppress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | ruin | a walk |  | the country |  | in order | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent walk=Theme into country=Destination |
| 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive | ruin *not said here* | relief |  |  | hour | for ruin's oppressed heart | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent relief=Location for heart=Theme |
| 3 | **oppress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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