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title: Art irrevocably chained to the convent?" he cried in horror, for eve… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Art irrevocably chained to the convent?" he cried in horror, for even love started back from the gulf that such an oath had made between them, opposing their union. " Who acts: Art, love. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2, with its d
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 122

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Art irrevocably chained to the convent?" he cried in horror, for even love started back from the gulf that such an oath had made between them, opposing their union. "

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**Who acts:** Art, love · **What happens:** chain, cry, start back, make, oppose · **To what, where:** horror, gulf, oath, union · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Art, love), 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:pg74323:3:122
# text = Art irrevocably chained to the convent?" he cried in horror, for even love started back from the gulf that such an oath had made between them, opposing their union. "
1	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	irrevocably	irrevocably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	chained	chain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gulf	gulf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
23	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	25	det:predet	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
28	between	between	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	opposing	oppose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chain** | past | Art |  |  |  |  | to the convent; irrevocably *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | art |  |  | horror |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in horror=Location |
| 3 | **start back** *in a quote* | past | love |  |  | the gulf |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | such oath |  |  |  | between arms *= arm*; the gulf *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary that=Product |
| 5 | **oppose** *in a quote* | gerund | love *not said here* | arms's union |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=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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