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title: "Oh! how shall I attempt to depict that dreadful night-scene among t… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh! how shall I attempt to depict that dreadful night-scene among the dead and dying on the field of Mars la Tour? Who acts: Samper, that. 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 every claus
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 83

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"Oh! how shall I attempt to depict that dreadful night-scene among the dead and dying on the field of Mars la Tour?

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**Who acts:** Samper, that · **What happens:** attempt, depict, scene, die · **To what, where:** field · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Samper, that), 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:pg74323:5:83
# text = "Oh! how shall I attempt to depict that dreadful night-scene among the dead and dying on the field of Mars la Tour?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	depict	depict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
11	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	la	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Tour	Tour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attempt** *in a quote* | shall | Samper  Mr. *= samper* |  |  | the field of Mars la Tour |  | among the dead | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **depict** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Samper  Mr. *= samper* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **scene** *in a quote* |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** *in a quote* | gerund | Samper  Mr. *= samper* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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