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title: He toiled unweariedly, dug the soil, felled the trees one after the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He toiled unweariedly, dug the soil, felled the trees one after the other, till of the sacred grove only three trees were left standing. Who acts: warrior, sacred grove, three trees. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, with its depend
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 4

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He toiled unweariedly, dug the soil, felled the trees one after the other, till of the sacred grove only three trees were left standing.

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**Who acts:** warrior, sacred grove, three trees · **What happens:** toil, dig, fell, leave, stand · **To what, where:** soil, trees, three trees

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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 (warrior, sacred grove, three trees), 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:pg74323:24:4
# text = He toiled unweariedly, dug the soil, felled the trees one after the other, till of the sacred grove only three trees were left standing.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	toiled	toil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unweariedly	unweariedly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	felled	fell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	till	till	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toil** | past | warrior |  |  |  |  | unweariedly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dig** | past | warrior *not said here* | the soil |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent soil=Theme |
| 3 | **fell** | past | warrior *not said here* | the trees |  |  | till the sacred grove | one *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | past · passive | the sacred grove *not said here* | three trees |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand** | gerund | three trees *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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