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title: He soon recognized the Earl, who after some minutes saw the creditor… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He soon recognized the Earl, who after some minutes saw the creditor whom he had cheated at the entrance to the cave, and broke out in lamentations and entreaties. Who acts: Earl. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, with its dependenc
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 71

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He soon recognized the Earl, who after some minutes saw the creditor whom he had cheated at the entrance to the cave, and broke out in lamentations and entreaties.

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**Who acts:** Earl · **What happens:** recognize, see, cheat, break out · **To what, where:** Earl, creditor, entrance, lamentations

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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:pg74323:4:71
# text = He soon recognized the Earl, who after some minutes saw the creditor whom he had cheated at the entrance to the cave, and broke out in lamentations and entreaties.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	creditor	creditor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	cheated	cheat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognize** | past | Earl | the Earl |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer earl=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past | the Earl | the creditor |  |  | minute |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creditor=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cheat** | past · perfect | Earl | the creditor |  | the entrance |  | to the cave | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Source |
| 4 | **break out** | past | Earl *not said here* |  |  | lamentations and entreaties |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lamentation=Location |

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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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