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title: But no ruin was to be discovered; all was vanished without leaving a… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But no ruin was to be discovered; all was vanished without leaving a trace, and even the shepherds could not find the spot again. Who acts: 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 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 81

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But no ruin was to be discovered; all was vanished without leaving a trace, and even the shepherds could not find the spot again.

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**Who acts:** shepherds · **What happens:** discover, vanish, leave, not find · **To what, where:** ruin, all, trace, spot

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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 (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:pg74323:24:81
# text = But no ruin was to be discovered; all was vanished without leaving a trace, and even the shepherds could not find the spot again.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past · passive |  | no ruin |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **vanish** | past · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund |  | a trace |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **find** | could | the shepherds | the spot |  |  | again |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Topic |

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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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