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title: Namely, never to permit any one to shoot at birds on the Hibichenste… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Namely, never to permit any one to shoot at birds on the Hibichenstein; for in this way bits of the rock are broken off. 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 88

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Namely, never to permit any one to shoot at birds on the Hibichenstein; for in this way bits of the rock are broken off.

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**What happens:** not permit, shoot, break off · **To what, where:** one, way bits

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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: 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:pg74323:25:88
# text = Namely, never to permit any one to shoot at birds on the Hibichenstein; for in this way bits of the rock are broken off.
1	Namely	namely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	permit	permit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Hibichenstein	Hibichenstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **permit** | to-infinitive |  | any one |  |  |  | namely *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **shoot** | to-infinitive |  | any one *not said here* |  |  |  | at birds on the Hibichenstein | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at bird=Destination |
| 3 | **break off** | present · passive |  | way bits of the rock |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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