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title: Since eight days, our servants, well hidden, have watched; but no on… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Since eight days, our servants, well hidden, have watched; but no one has shown himself, and nevertheless as much has been stolen as before. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 95

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Since eight days, our servants, well hidden, have watched; but no one has shown himself, and nevertheless as much has been stolen as before.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** hide, watch, show, steal · **To what, where:** servants, servant, much

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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 (one), 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:pg74323:22:95
# text = Since eight days, our servants, well hidden, have watched; but no one has shown himself, and nevertheless as much has been stolen as before.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	before	before	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | participle |  | our servants *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **watch** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **show** | present · perfect | no one | servant |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |
| 4 | **steal** | present · perfect · passive |  | much |  |  |  | before *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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