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title: Delighted at the double discovery, Moritz promised to keep the secre… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Delighted at the double discovery, Moritz promised to keep the secret three months, at the expiration of which time he declared it to be his duty to communicate the fact to the King of France, Louis XV. Who acts: Moritz. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legen
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 76

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Delighted at the double discovery, Moritz promised to keep the secret three months, at the expiration of which time he declared it to be his duty to communicate the fact to the King of France, Louis XV.

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**Who acts:** Moritz · **What happens:** promise, keep, declare, be, communicate · **To what, where:** expiration, duty, fact, King · **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 (Moritz), 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:pg74323:3:76
# text = Delighted at the double discovery, Moritz promised to keep the secret three months, at the expiration of which time he declared it to be his duty to communicate the fact to the King of France, Louis XV.
1	Delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Moritz	Moritz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	expiration	expiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	communicate	communicate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
40	XV	XV	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Moritz |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Moritz *not said here* |  |  | the expiration of which time | month |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at expiration=Location |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Moritz | expiration |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Attribute |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | Moritz's duty |  |  |  | Moritz *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **communicate** | to-infinitive | Moritz *not said here* | the fact | the King of France |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fact=Topic to king=Recipient |

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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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