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title: At last a man from Lonau, who had experience in treasure-seeking, de… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: At last a man from Lonau, who had experience in treasure-seeking, determined to attempt it, and engaged several workmen to assist him in the undertaking. Who acts: experience. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, with its dependency tr
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 94

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At last a man from Lonau, who had experience in treasure-seeking, determined to attempt it, and engaged several workmen to assist him in the undertaking.

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**Who acts:** experience · **What happens:** have, seek, determine, attempt, engage, assist · **To what, where:** experience, several workmen, Lonau, undertaking

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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 (experience), 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:pg74323:24:94
# text = At last a man from Lonau, who had experience in treasure-seeking, determined to attempt it, and engaged several workmen to assist him in the undertaking.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Lonau	Lonau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	engaged	engage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	workmen	workman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	assist	assist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	undertaking	undertaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | experience |  |  |  | at a last man from Lonau; who *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experience=Patient |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund | experience *not said here* |  |  |  |  | treasure *compound* | tree rules |
| 3 | **determine** *not said to happen* | participle | experience *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **attempt** | to-infinitive | experience *not said here* | experience |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 5 | **engage** | past |  | several workmen |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workman=Patient |
| 6 | **assist** | to-infinitive |  |  | Lonau | the undertaking |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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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