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title: Soon after that event, a blue flame was seen every night between ele… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after that event, a blue flame was seen every night between eleven and twelve on this heap of scoria, which a black man endeavoured to keep burning until midnight. Who acts: black man. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, with its
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 91

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Soon after that event, a blue flame was seen every night between eleven and twelve on this heap of scoria, which a black man endeavoured to keep burning until midnight.

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**Who acts:** black man · **What happens:** see, endeavour, keep, burn · **To what, where:** blue flame, heap

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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 (black man), 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:pg74323:24:91
# text = Soon after that event, a blue flame was seen every night between eleven and twelve on this heap of scoria, which a black man endeavoured to keep burning until midnight.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	scoria	scoria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	endeavoured	endeavour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	_
31	until	until	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | a blue flame |  | this heap of scoria | after that event; night | between eleven; soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **endeavour** | past | a black man | this heap of scoria |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | a black man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **burn** | gerund | a black man *not said here* |  |  |  | midnight |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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