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title: If ye would discover the thieves who rob your fields, go out at midn… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: If ye would discover the thieves who rob your fields, go out at midnight and strike about in the air with a willow rod, and ye will soon see the cunning rascals. Who acts: ye, thieves, you. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with its
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 110

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If ye would discover the thieves who rob your fields, go out at midnight and strike about in the air with a willow rod, and ye will soon see the cunning rascals.

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**Who acts:** ye, thieves, you · **What happens:** discover, rob, go out, strike, see · **To what, where:** thieves, fields, air, cunning rascals

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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 (ye, thieves, 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:pg74323:22:110
# text = If ye would discover the thieves who rob your fields, go out at midnight and strike about in the air with a willow rod, and ye will soon see the cunning rascals.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rob	rob	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	strike	strike	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	cunning	cunning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	rascals	rascal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | ye | the thieves |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Topic |
| 2 | **rob** | present | the thieves | your fields |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Source |
| 3 | **go out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | midnight | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **strike** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | the air |  | with a willow rod; about *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |
| 5 | **see** | future | ye | the cunning rascals |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rascal=Stimulus |

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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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