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title: He protected the forests, and played serious jokes upon those who di… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He protected the forests, and played serious jokes upon those who did them any injury. Who acts: Hibich. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8, 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 8, sentence 49

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He protected the forests, and played serious jokes upon those who did them any injury.

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**Who acts:** Hibich · **What happens:** protect, play, do · **To what, where:** forests, serious jokes, jokes

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hibich), 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:pg74323:25:49
# text = He protected the forests, and played serious jokes upon those who did them any injury.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	protected	protect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** | past | Hibich | the forests |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **play** | past | Hibich *not said here* | serious jokes |  |  |  | upon those | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past |  | jokes *= joke* |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; any injury *obj* | tree rules |

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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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