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title: His garments betrayed the greatest poverty, but his countenance was… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: His garments betrayed the greatest poverty, but his countenance was noble, and his thin locks were dripping with the rain. Who acts: garments, countenance, thin locks. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with its dependency tree and t
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 72

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His garments betrayed the greatest poverty, but his countenance was noble, and his thin locks were dripping with the rain.

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**Who acts:** garments, countenance, thin locks · **What happens:** betray, be, drip · **To what, where:** greatest poverty

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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 (garments, countenance, thin locks), 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:pg74323:22:72
# text = His garments betrayed the greatest poverty, but his countenance was noble, and his thin locks were dripping with the rain.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	betrayed	betray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	dripping	drip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **betray** | past | darkness's garments | the greatest poverty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | darkness's countenance |  |  |  |  | noble *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drip** | past · progressive | darkness's thin locks |  |  |  |  | with the rain | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rain=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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