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title: The merriment of the guests rang out into the night; in the wildest… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The merriment of the guests rang out into the night; in the wildest dance mingled men and women, youths and maidens, and loud music smothered the rolling thunder which could be heard in the distance. Who acts: merriment, loud music. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie L
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 67

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The merriment of the guests rang out into the night; in the wildest dance mingled men and women, youths and maidens, and loud music smothered the rolling thunder which could be heard in the distance.

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**Who acts:** merriment, loud music · **What happens:** ring out, mingle, smother, hear · **To what, where:** men, wildest dance, rolling thunder

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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 (merriment, loud music), 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:pg74323:22:67
# text = The merriment of the guests rang out into the night; in the wildest dance mingled men and women, youths and maidens, and loud music smothered the rolling thunder which could be heard in the distance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	merriment	merriment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wildest	wild	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	smothered	smother	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	rolling	rolling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring out** | past | the merriment of the guests |  |  |  | night |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mingle** | past |  | men and women and youths and maidens |  | the wildest dance |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 3 | **smother** | past | loud music | the rolling thunder |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thunder=Destination |
| 4 | **hear** | could · passive |  | the rolling thunder |  |  |  | in the distance | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=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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