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title: But the deep shadows of these woodlands, where the foot of man seldo… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But the deep shadows of these woodlands, where the foot of man seldom wandered, this sacred stillness, undisturbed by the noise and bustle of human life, was notwithstanding peopled. Who acts: foot, deep shadows, human life. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 99

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But the deep shadows of these woodlands, where the foot of man seldom wandered, this sacred stillness, undisturbed by the noise and bustle of human life, was notwithstanding peopled.

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**Who acts:** foot, deep shadows, human life · **What happens:** wander, undisturb, notwithstand, people, shadow, bustle · **To what, where:** sacred stillness, woodlands

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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 (foot, deep shadows, human life), 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:pg74323:23:100
# text = But the deep shadows of these woodlands, where the foot of man seldom wandered, this sacred stillness, undisturbed by the noise and bustle of human life, was notwithstanding peopled.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stillness	stillness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	undisturbed	undisturb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	bustle	bustle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
33	peopled	people	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | the foot of man | this sacred stillness |  |  |  | seldom *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **undisturb** | participle |  | this sacred stillness *not said here* |  |  |  | by the noise and bustle of human life | tree rules |
| 3 | **notwithstand** | past · progressive | the deep shadows of this woodlands |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **people** | participle | the deep shadows of this woodlands *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shadow** |  |  | this woodlands |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **bustle** |  | human life |  |  |  |  |  | nom bustle «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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