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title: Already for a long period the subterranean water-floods have threate… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Already for a long period the subterranean water-floods have threatened to drive us from the Sachsenstein, which we have inhabited so long, and I shall leave only a few of my people, in order not to wholly lose this ancient possession; from them, however, you will suffer no molestation." Who acts: I
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 44

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Already for a long period the subterranean water-floods have threatened to drive us from the Sachsenstein, which we have inhabited so long, and I shall leave only a few of my people, in order not to wholly lose this ancient possession; from them, however, you will suffer no molestation."

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** threaten, drive, inhabit, leave, not lose, suffer · **To what, where:** long period, us, Sachsenstein, few, order, ancient possession

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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:pg74323:23:44
# text = Already for a long period the subterranean water-floods have threatened to drive us from the Sachsenstein, which we have inhabited so long, and I shall leave only a few of my people, in order not to wholly lose this ancient possession; from them, however, you will suffer no molestation."
1	Already	already	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	subterranean	subterranean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Sachsenstein	Sachsenstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
42	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl:relcl	_	_
44	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	46	det	_	_
45	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	however	however	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
53	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
56	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	57	det	_	_
57	molestation	molestation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **threaten** | present · perfect · passive |  | a long period |  |  |  | the subterranean water floods *nsubj:pass* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | us |  | the Sachsenstein |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent we=Theme from sachsenstein=Trajectory |
| 3 | **inhabit** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Sachsenstein |  |  |  | we *nsubj*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | shall | I | a few of my people |  | order |  | people *advcl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent few=Theme in order=Location |
| 5 | **not** **lose** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | this ancient possession |  |  |  | wholly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Eventuality |
| 6 | **suffer** | future | you | no molestation |  |  |  | however *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer molestation=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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