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title: We laid them both in one grave, on a knoll, under a clump of limes--… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: We laid them both in one grave, on a knoll, under a clump of limes--the two brave hearts so true and noble. Who acts: We. 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 clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 87

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We laid them both in one grave, on a knoll, under a clump of limes--the two brave hearts so true and noble.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** lay · **To what, where:** heaps, one grave

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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 (We), 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:pg74323:5:87
# text = We laid them both in one grave, on a knoll, under a clump of limes--the two brave hearts so true and noble.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	both	both	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	knoll	knoll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	clump	clump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	limes	lime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | We | heaps *= heap* |  | one grave |  | on a knoll; a clump of limes  the two brave hearts *parataxis*; both *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in grave=Destination |

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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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