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title: Just at this period the doctrines of the Christian faith had penetra… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Just at this period the doctrines of the Christian faith had penetrated into the Harz; Egbert had become a convert, and had won Thusnelda also for the new faith. Who acts: Egbert. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2, with its dependenc
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 1

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Just at this period the doctrines of the Christian faith had penetrated into the Harz; Egbert had become a convert, and had won Thusnelda also for the new faith.

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**Who acts:** Egbert · **What happens:** penetrate, become, win, indoctrinate · **To what, where:** period, Harz, convert, Thusnelda, Christian faith

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Egbert), 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:pg74323:3:1
# text = Just at this period the doctrines of the Christian faith had penetrated into the Harz; Egbert had become a convert, and had won Thusnelda also for the new faith.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	doctrines	doctrine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Harz	Harz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Egbert	Egbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	convert	convert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
26	Thusnelda	Thusnelda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **penetrate** | past · perfect · passive |  | this period |  | the Harz |  | the doctrines of the Christian faith *nsubj* | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | past · perfect | Egbert | a convert |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **win** | past · perfect |  | Thusnelda |  |  |  | for the new faith | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thusnelda=Theme for faith=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **indoctrinate** |  |  | the Christian faith |  |  |  |  | nom doctrine «cognition 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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