--- title: "But the blood," he said meditatively--"the blood that I must give h… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: "But the blood," he said meditatively--"the blood that I must give him both to eat and drink; the blood that shall neither be of man nor beast--whence shall it come?" Who acts: Weidemann, blood. 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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 (Weidemann, blood), 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:pg74323:7:39 # text = "But the blood," he said meditatively--"the blood that I must give him both to eat and drink; the blood that shall neither be of man nor beast--whence shall it come?" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 meditatively meditatively ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 -- -- PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 17 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 29 neither neither DET DT PronType=Neg 32 nsubj _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 acl:relcl _ _ 33 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 34 cc _ _ 34 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 whence whence ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 37 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ? ? PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Weidemann | | | | | the blood *ccomp*; meditatively *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** *in a quote* | must | the blood | both | Weidemann | | | I *nsubj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient both=Theme | | 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the blood *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive | the blood *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | the blood | | | | | of man nor beast; beast *conj* | tree rules | | 6 | **come** *in a quote* | shall | the blood | | | | | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/40/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/7/)