--- title: "Then came the 18th of August, that most murderous of all the engage… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: "Then came the 18th of August, that most murderous of all the engagements of the war, the battle of Gravelotte, in which the Kaiser commanded in person, with a brilliant staff, Prinz Friedrich Karl, Steinmetz, Moltke, Roon, Bismarck being on it. Who acts: Kaiser, war. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kaiser, war), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:5:88 # text = "Then came the 18th of August, that most murderous of all the engagements of the war, the battle of Gravelotte, in which the Kaiser commanded in person, with a brilliant staff, Prinz Friedrich Karl, Steinmetz, Moltke, Roon, Bismarck being on it. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 18th 18th ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 7 amod _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 murderous murderous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 15 det:predet _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 engagements engagement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Gravelotte Gravelotte PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 obl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Kaiser Kaiser PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 Prinz Prinz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 39 Friedrich Friedrich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 Karl Karl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 Steinmetz Steinmetz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 Moltke Moltke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 Roon Roon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 Bismarck Bismarck PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 49 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 acl _ _ 50 on on ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** *in a quote* | past | | | | | then; august | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **command** *in a quote* | past | the Kaiser | | | | | in person; with a brilliant staff; which *obl* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent in which=Eventuality | | 3 | **engage** *in a quote* | | the war | | | | | | nom engagement «act intransitive»: of=agent | | 4 | **battle** *in a quote* | | | Gravelotte | | | | | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/89/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/)