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title: Not even the peace of the Sabbath could check the delight of the hun… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Not even the peace of the Sabbath could check the delight of the huntsman in the chase, or restrain him from his continued persecution of the animals of the woods. Who acts: peace, huntsman. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with it
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 47

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Not even the peace of the Sabbath could check the delight of the huntsman in the chase, or restrain him from his continued persecution of the animals of the woods.

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**Who acts:** peace, huntsman · **What happens:** check, restrain, continue, pacify, delight, persecute · **To what, where:** delight, chase, peace, continued persecution, Sabbath, animals

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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 (peace, huntsman), 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:pg74323:22:47
# text = Not even the peace of the Sabbath could check the delight of the huntsman in the chase, or restrain him from his continued persecution of the animals of the woods.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sabbath	Sabbath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	restrain	restrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	persecution	persecution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | could | the peace of the Sabbath | the delight of the huntsman |  | the chase |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Theme |
| 2 | **restrain** | infinitive | the peace of the Sabbath *not said here* |  | peace | peace's continued persecution of the animals of the woods |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP PP.eventuality»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary from persecution=Eventuality |
| 3 | **continue** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pacify** |  |  | the Sabbath |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **delight** |  | the huntsman |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **persecute** |  | peace | the animals of the woods |  |  |  |  | nom persecution «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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