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title: Soon after the Earl did not return from a predatory excursion, and m… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after the Earl did not return from a predatory excursion, and many singular reports were circulated concerning his death. Who acts: Earl. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 65

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Soon after the Earl did not return from a predatory excursion, and many singular reports were circulated concerning his death.

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**Who acts:** Earl · **What happens:** not return, circulate, concern, die · **To what, where:** predatory excursion, many singular reports, death

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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 (Earl), 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:pg74323:4:65
# text = Soon after the Earl did not return from a predatory excursion, and many singular reports were circulated concerning his death.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	predatory	predatory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	excursion	excursion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	circulated	circulate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
19	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **return** | past · do-support | the Earl |  |  | a predatory excursion |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from excursion=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **circulate** | past · passive |  | many singular reports |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund |  | Earl's death |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus death=Experiencer |
| 4 | **die** |  | Earl |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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