--- title: Certainly it is vexatious when wicked men lay hands on our property;… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Certainly it is vexatious when wicked men lay hands on our property; but as all the people of the earth are not purely honourable, if thou wilt appoint guards, thou wilt soon have the pleasure of seeing the thieves face to face." Who acts: voice, wicked men, people, thou. A sentence of «Legends and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/22/93/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / [A Historical Tale., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/22/) / 93 # Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 93 Certainly it is vexatious when wicked men lay hands on our property; but as all the people of the earth are not purely honourable, if thou wilt appoint guards, thou wilt soon have the pleasure of seeing the thieves face to face." **Who acts:** voice, wicked men, people, thou, pleasure · **What happens:** be, lay, not be, appoint, have, see · **To what, where:** hands, property, guards, thieves 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 (voice, wicked men, people, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:22:93 # text = Certainly it is vexatious when wicked men lay hands on our property; but as all the people of the earth are not purely honourable, if thou wilt appoint guards, thou wilt soon have the pleasure of seeing the thieves face to face." 1 Certainly certainly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 vexatious vexatious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 6 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 9 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 16 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 18 det:predet _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 purely purely ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 honourable honourable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nsubj _ _ 29 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 appoint appoint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 31 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 33 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 36 nsubj _ _ 34 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 36 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 39 of of SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 acl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 thieves thief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 43 face face VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 parataxis _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | voice | | | | | certainly, vexatious *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **lay** | present | wicked men | hands | | our property | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on property=Destination | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | all people of the earth | | | | | honourable, purely *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **appoint** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | thou | guards | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Theme | | 5 | **have** | future | thou | | | | | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **see** | gerund | the pleasure *not said here* | the thieves | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thief=Stimulus | | 7 | **face** | present | the pleasure | | | | | to face | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/22/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/22/94/) - ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/22/)