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title: If a hunter who has never shed blood gives him blood that belongs ne… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: If a hunter who has never shed blood gives him blood that belongs neither to man nor beast, and he both drinks and eats it at the same time, the enchantment of the White Stag is broken." Who acts: hunter, blood. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Ta
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 14

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If a hunter who has never shed blood gives him blood that belongs neither to man nor beast, and he both drinks and eats it at the same time, the enchantment of the White Stag is broken."

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**Who acts:** hunter, blood · **What happens:** not shed, give, belong, drink, eat, break · **To what, where:** hunter, blood, Ja, man, enchantment, White Stag

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunter, blood), 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:pg74323:7:14
# text = If a hunter who has never shed blood gives him blood that belongs neither to man nor beast, and he both drinks and eats it at the same time, the enchantment of the White Stag is broken."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	shed	shed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	TO	_	16	case	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
18	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Stag	Stag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **shed** | present · perfect · passive |  | a hunter |  |  |  | blood *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | a hunter | blood | Ja |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blood=Theme |
| 3 | **belong** | present | blood | man nor beast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drink** |  | hunter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | present | a hunter *not said here* | blood |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **break** | present · passive |  | the enchantment of the White Stag |  |  | time |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **enchant** |  |  | the White Stag |  |  |  |  | nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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