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title: The sick man became "healthy as a fish" from the hour when he made u… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The sick man became "healthy as a fish" from the hour when he made use of this powerful herb. Who acts: sick man, man. 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 59

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The sick man became "healthy as a fish" from the hour when he made use of this powerful herb.

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**Who acts:** sick man, man · **What happens:** become, make, use · **To what, where:** use, powerful herb

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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 (sick man, 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:pg74323:25:59
# text = The sick man became "healthy as a fish" from the hour when he made use of this powerful herb.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
17	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the sick man |  |  |  | hour | healthy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | man | use of this powerful herb |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product |
| 3 | **use** |  |  | this powerful herb |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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