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title: Every seven years, on this day, thou shalt take the form of my slain… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Every seven years, on this day, thou shalt take the form of my slain White Stag for a single day, and appear on this spot." Who acts: seven years. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 63

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Every seven years, on this day, thou shalt take the form of my slain White Stag for a single day, and appear on this spot."

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**Who acts:** seven years · **What happens:** take, appear, form · **To what, where:** form, spot, slain 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 (seven years), 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:pg74323:7:63
# text = Every seven years, on this day, thou shalt take the form of my slain White Stag for a single day, and appear on this spot."
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Stag	Stag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | shall | every seven years and this day | the form of my slain White Stag |  |  | day | thou *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | infinitive | every seven years and this day *not said here* |  |  | this spot |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on spot=Location |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | my slain White Stag |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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