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title: At last the second brother became undecided and restless, and finall… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the second brother became undecided and restless, and finally the two resolved to remain no longer. Who acts: last second brother. 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 of every clause
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 8

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At last the second brother became undecided and restless, and finally the two resolved to remain no longer.

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**Who acts:** last second brother · **What happens:** become, resolve, remain · **To what, where:** two

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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 (last second brother), 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:pg74323:22:8
# text = At last the second brother became undecided and restless, and finally the two resolved to remain no longer.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	undecided	undecided	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	no	no	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the last second brother |  |  |  |  | undecided *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **resolve** | participle · passive |  | the two |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remain** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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