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title: But for security, in case of another attack, he resolved to lay in f… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But for security, in case of another attack, he resolved to lay in fresh provisions, and accordingly sent a messenger to the surrounding villages with an order to the people forthwith to bring the needful supplies. Who acts: Regenstein, messenger. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountai
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 44

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But for security, in case of another attack, he resolved to lay in fresh provisions, and accordingly sent a messenger to the surrounding villages with an order to the people forthwith to bring the needful supplies.

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**Who acts:** Regenstein, messenger · **What happens:** resolve, lay, send, bring · **To what, where:** fresh provisions, messenger, surrounding villages, needful supplies

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Regenstein, messenger), 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:pg74323:4:44
# text = But for security, in case of another attack, he resolved to lay in fresh provisions, and accordingly sent a messenger to the surrounding villages with an order to the people forthwith to bring the needful supplies.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
34	forthwith	forthwith	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	needful	needful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	supplies	supplies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | Regenstein |  |  |  |  | for security and case of another attack | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | to-infinitive | Regenstein *not said here* |  |  | fresh provisions |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in provision=Destination |
| 3 | **send** | past | Regenstein *not said here* | a messenger |  | the surrounding villages |  | with a order; to the people; accordingly *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to village=Destination |
| 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | a messenger *not said here* | the needful supplies |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent supplies=Theme |

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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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