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title: She called together those nuns who were in her full confidence, repr… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She called together those nuns who were in her full confidence, represented to them how they had to fear betrayal from the novice Lina, and to defend themselves they must destroy her. Who acts: Abbess, nuns. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 96

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She called together those nuns who were in her full confidence, represented to them how they had to fear betrayal from the novice Lina, and to defend themselves they must destroy her.

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**Who acts:** Abbess, nuns · **What happens:** call together, be, represent, have, fear, defend · **To what, where:** nuns, full confidence, betrayal, novice, Abbess

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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 (Abbess, nuns), 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:pg74323:3:96
# text = She called together those nuns who were in her full confidence, represented to them how they had to fear betrayal from the novice Lina, and to defend themselves they must destroy her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	nuns	nun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	xcomp	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	betrayal	betrayal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	novice	novice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	Lina	Lina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call together** *speech: assert* | past | Abbess | that nuns |  |  |  | together *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | that nuns |  |  | Abbess's full confidence |  | Abbess *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **represent** | participle |  | Abbess's full confidence *not said here* | nuns *= nun* |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to they=Attribute |
| 4 | **have** | past | nuns *= nun* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fear** | to-infinitive | nuns *= nun* *not said here* | betrayal |  | the novice |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer betrayal=Stimulus |
| 6 | **defend** | to-infinitive | nuns *= nun* *not said here* | nuns *= nun* |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **destroy** | must | nuns *= nun* | Abbess |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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