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title: A pious hermit admonished him frequently, and entreated him not to d… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A pious hermit admonished him frequently, and entreated him not to disturb God's peace of the holy day with his tumult and noise; but the sportsman closed his ears to the warnings of the old man, and the hermit returned to his hermitage accompanied by the scornful derision of the ungodly hunter. Who
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 48

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A pious hermit admonished him frequently, and entreated him not to disturb God's peace of the holy day with his tumult and noise; but the sportsman closed his ears to the warnings of the old man, and the hermit returned to his hermitage accompanied by the scornful derision of the ungodly hunter.

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**Who acts:** pious hermit, sportsman, hermit, God · **What happens:** admonish, entreat, not disturb, close, return, accompany · **To what, where:** peace, ears, warnings, hermitage, holy day, old man

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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 (pious hermit, sportsman, hermit, God), 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:pg74323:22:48
# text = A pious hermit admonished him frequently, and entreated him not to disturb God's peace of the holy day with his tumult and noise; but the sportsman closed his ears to the warnings of the old man, and the hermit returned to his hermitage accompanied by the scornful derision of the ungodly hunter.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	admonished	admonish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	tumult	tumult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sportsman	sportsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	warnings	warning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	hermitage	hermitage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	scornful	scornful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	derision	derision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	ungodly	ungodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admonish** | past | a pious hermit |  | peace |  |  | frequently *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **entreat** | past | a pious hermit *not said here* |  | peace |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **disturb** | to-infinitive | a pious hermit *not said here* | God's peace of the holy day with peace's tumult and noise |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus peace=Experiencer |
| 4 | **close** | past | the sportsman | peace's ears | the warnings of the old man |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ear=Patient to warning=Recipient |
| 5 | **return** | past | the hermit |  |  |  |  | to peace's hermitage *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to hermitage=Result |
| 6 | **accompany** | participle |  | peace's hermitage *not said here* |  |  |  | by the scornful derision of the ungodly hunter | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by derision=Destination |
| 7 | **pacify** |  | God | the holy day with peace's tumult and noise |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 8 | **warn** |  |  | the old man |  |  |  |  | nom warning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **deride** |  |  | the ungodly hunter |  |  |  |  | nom derision «communication transitive»: 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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