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title: They also told them they must now become black, and would only visit… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: They also told them they must now become black, and would only visit them once a year, exhorted the brothers to firmness, and left them. Who acts: ladies. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 2

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They also told them they must now become black, and would only visit them once a year, exhorted the brothers to firmness, and left them.

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**Who acts:** ladies · **What happens:** tell, become, visit, exhort, leave · **To what, where:** casks, ladies, brothers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg74323:22:2
# text = They also told them they must now become black, and would only visit them once a year, exhorted the brothers to firmness, and left them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	told	tell	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	iobj	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	exhorted	exhort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	firmness	firmness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | ladies *= lady* |  | casks *= cask* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **become** | must | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  | now | black *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **visit** | would | ladies *= lady* *not said here* | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  | once *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **exhort** | past | ladies *= lady* *not said here* |  | the brothers |  |  | to firmness | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient |
| 5 | **leave** | past | ladies *= lady* *not said here* | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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