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title: May assured her of her deep interest and sympathy, and they seated t… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: May assured her of her deep interest and sympathy, and they seated themselves under a magnificent oak near the lake. Who acts: May, interest, joy. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 42

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May assured her of her deep interest and sympathy, and they seated themselves under a magnificent oak near the lake.

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**Who acts:** May, interest, joy · **What happens:** assure, seat, interest · **To what, where:** joy, interest, magnificent oak

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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 (May, interest, joy), 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:pg74323:5:42
# text = May assured her of her deep interest and sympathy, and they seated themselves under a magnificent oak near the lake.
1	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	assured	assure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	near	near	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assure** | past | May |  | joy |  |  | of joy's deep interest and sympathy | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient of interest=Topic |
| 2 | **seat** | past | interest | interest |  | a magnificent oak near the lake |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Value |
| 3 | **interest** |  | joy |  |  |  |  |  | nom interest «cognition transitive»: 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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