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title: At that time thousands of strangers did not, as now, visit the subli… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: At that time thousands of strangers did not, as now, visit the sublime rocky valley, to enjoy its wild and savage grandeur, and its trout and merlins, and the poor man, though naturally of a contented mind, often murmured at his poverty. Who acts: thousands. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the H
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 76

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At that time thousands of strangers did not, as now, visit the sublime rocky valley, to enjoy its wild and savage grandeur, and its trout and merlins, and the poor man, though naturally of a contented mind, often murmured at his poverty.

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**Who acts:** thousands · **What happens:** not do, visit, enjoy, content, murmur · **To what, where:** sublime rocky valley, wild grandeur, contented mind, poverty

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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 (thousands), 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:pg74323:7:76
# text = At that time thousands of strangers did not, as now, visit the sublime rocky valley, to enjoy its wild and savage grandeur, and its trout and merlins, and the poor man, though naturally of a contented mind, often murmured at his poverty.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	sublime	sublime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	trout	trout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	merlins	merlin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
39	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	amod	_	_
43	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	often	often	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | past | thousands of strangers |  |  |  | time | valley's trout and merlins and the poor man and a contented mind *parataxis* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **visit** | infinitive | thousands of strangers *not said here* | the sublime rocky valley |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive | thousands of strangers *not said here* | valley's wild grandeur |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandeur=Stimulus |
| 4 | **content** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **murmur** *speech: other* | participle |  | a contented mind *not said here* |  | man's poverty |  | often *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at poverty=Location |

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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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