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title: The ladies promised them the best table during the time, and conduct… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The ladies promised them the best table during the time, and conducted them to see their treasures, and pointing out three casks filled with gold, promised each one. Who acts: ladies. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with its depen
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 1

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The ladies promised them the best table during the time, and conducted them to see their treasures, and pointing out three casks filled with gold, promised each one.

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**Who acts:** ladies · **What happens:** promise, conduct, see, point out, fill, treasure · **To what, where:** best table, them, ladies, treasures, three casks, one

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies), 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:pg74323:22:1
# text = The ladies promised them the best table during the time, and conducted them to see their treasures, and pointing out three casks filled with gold, promised each one.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	during	during	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	casks	cask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the ladies | the best table | them *= they* |  | time |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal table=Theme |
| 2 | **conduct** | past |  | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | ladies's treasures |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treasure=Stimulus |
| 4 | **point out** | gerund | the ladies *not said here* | three casks |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cask=Patient |
| 5 | **fill** | participle |  | three casks *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with gold=Instrument |
| 6 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the ladies *not said here* | each one |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 7 | **treasure** |  | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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