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title: The Earl rode one Sunday morning to Ellrich, as an invited guest to… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Earl rode one Sunday morning to Ellrich, as an invited guest to a grand banquet, where all the guests were to drink for a wager, the reward being a chain of gold. Who acts: Earl, guests, reward. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8,
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 96

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The Earl rode one Sunday morning to Ellrich, as an invited guest to a grand banquet, where all the guests were to drink for a wager, the reward being a chain of gold.

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**Who acts:** Earl, guests, reward · **What happens:** ride, invite, drink, be · **To what, where:** Ellrich, chain

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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 (Earl, guests, reward), 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:pg74323:25:96
# text = The Earl rode one Sunday morning to Ellrich, as an invited guest to a grand banquet, where all the guests were to drink for a wager, the reward being a chain of gold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ellrich	Ellrich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wager	wager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	cop	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | the Earl |  |  | Ellrich | morning | as a invited guest; to a grand banquet | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to ellrich=Trajectory |
| 2 | **invite** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drink** | past | all guests |  |  |  |  | for a wager | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | gerund | the reward | a chain |  |  |  | of gold | 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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