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title: What a pity that a work to God's honour must remain unfinished, whil… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: What a pity that a work to God's honour must remain unfinished, while the rich build palaces and heap up treasures. Who acts: work, God. 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 every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 45

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What a pity that a work to God's honour must remain unfinished, while the rich build palaces and heap up treasures.

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**Who acts:** work, God · **What happens:** remain, heap up, honour · **To what, where:** pity, treasures

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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 (work, God), 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:pg74323:24:45
# text = What a pity that a work to God's honour must remain unfinished, while the rich build palaces and heap up treasures.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
13	unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	build	build	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	heap	heap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | must | a work to God's honour | a pity |  |  |  | the rich build palaces *conj*; unfinished *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Attribute |
| 2 | **heap up** | present | a work to God's honour *not said here* | treasures |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 4 | **honour** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=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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