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title: Two shepherds in Quedlinburg, father and son, poor but honest people… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Two shepherds in Quedlinburg, father and son, poor but honest people, were once watching their flocks on the green meadows. Who acts: Two shepherds. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 37

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Two shepherds in Quedlinburg, father and son, poor but honest people, were once watching their flocks on the green meadows.

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**Who acts:** Two shepherds · **What happens:** watch · **To what, where:** flocks, green meadows

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two shepherds), 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:pg74323:24:37
# text = Two shepherds in Quedlinburg, father and son, poor but honest people, were once watching their flocks on the green meadows.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Quedlinburg	Quedlinburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	appos	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
17	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past · progressive | Two shepherds in Quedlinburg and father and son | Shepherds's flocks |  | the green meadows |  | once *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=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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