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title: Die Blätter lispeln, sie umkost die Luft Mit sanftem Spiel, einathme… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Die Blätter lispeln, sie umkost die Luft Mit sanftem Spiel, einathmend ihren Duft; Wer flüstert Balsam mir in's Herz hinein? Who acts: you, Blätter lispeln, Wer flüstert Balsam. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5, with its dependency 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 14

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Die Blätter lispeln, sie umkost die Luft Mit sanftem Spiel, einathmend ihren Duft; Wer flüstert Balsam mir in's Herz hinein?

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**Who acts:** you, Blätter lispeln, Wer flüstert Balsam · **What happens:** die, einathmend, mir · **To what, where:** Luft, ihren, Herz hinein

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Blätter lispeln, Wer flüstert Balsam), 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:pg74323:6:14
# text = Die Blätter lispeln, sie umkost die Luft Mit sanftem Spiel, einathmend ihren Duft; Wer flüstert Balsam mir in's Herz hinein?
1	Die	die	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Blätter	Blätter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lispeln	lispeln	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	sie	sie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	umkost	umkost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	Luft	Luft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	Mit	Mit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	sanftem	sanftem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	list	_	_
11	Spiel	Spiel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	einathmend	einathmend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	ihren	ihren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	Duft	Duft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	Wer	Wer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	flüstert	flüstert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Balsam	balsam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	mir	mir	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	punct	_	_
23	Herz	Herz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	hinein	hinein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **die** | present | Blätter lispeln and sie umkost | Luft  sanftem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **einathmend** | present | Blätter lispeln and sie umkost *not said here* | ihren |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mir** | present | Wer flüstert Balsam |  |  | Herz hinein |  |  | 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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