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title: They reached Zellerfield with their wealth, agreed to keep all a sec… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: They reached Zellerfield with their wealth, agreed to keep all a secret, and began to live in luxury, each taking to himself a wife. Who acts: brothers, each. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 11

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They reached Zellerfield with their wealth, agreed to keep all a secret, and began to live in luxury, each taking to himself a wife.

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**Who acts:** brothers, each · **What happens:** reach, agree, keep, begin, live, take · **To what, where:** Zellerfield, secret, luxury, wife

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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 (brothers, each), 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:pg74323:22:11
# text = They reached Zellerfield with their wealth, agreed to keep all a secret, and began to live in luxury, each taking to himself a wife.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Zellerfield	Zellerfield	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	luxury	luxury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
23	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | brothers *= brother* | Zellerfield |  |  |  | with brothers's wealth | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent zellerfield=Theme |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle | brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | all secret |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **live** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | luxury |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in luxury=Location |
| 6 | **take** | gerund | each | a wife | Zellerfield |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Theme to himself=Destination |

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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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