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title: "The noble-hearted Kaiser honoured my dying husband, before the seco… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "The noble-hearted Kaiser honoured my dying husband, before the second army moved on, with a visit, and the tear his Majesty brushed away did honour to the Sovereign so deservedly beloved. Who acts: hearted Kaiser, second army, tear. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 100

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"The noble-hearted Kaiser honoured my dying husband, before the second army moved on, with a visit, and the tear his Majesty brushed away did honour to the Sovereign so deservedly beloved.

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**Who acts:** hearted Kaiser, second army, tear · **What happens:** honour, die, move on, brush away, belov · **To what, where:** dying husband

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearted Kaiser, second army, tear), 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:pg74323:5:100
# text = "The noble-hearted Kaiser honoured my dying husband, before the second army moved on, with a visit, and the tear his Majesty brushed away did honour to the Sovereign so deservedly beloved.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Kaiser	Kaiser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	honoured	honour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
28	brushed	brush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	honour	honour	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	deservedly	deservedly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	beloved	belov	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **honour** *in a quote* | past | the hearted Kaiser | my dying husband |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **move on** *in a quote* | past | the second army |  |  |  |  | with a visit | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **brush away** *in a quote* | past | the tear |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **honour** *in a quote* | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | to the Sovereign | tree rules |
| 6 | **belov** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | deservedly *property* | tree rules |

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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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