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title: It conducts us first past a number of ponds, which formerly supplied… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: It conducts us first past a number of ponds, which formerly supplied the self-denying monks with carp for their fasts, and now swarm with speckled trout. Who acts: It, ponds, monks. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7, with its depende
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 1

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It conducts us first past a number of ponds, which formerly supplied the self-denying monks with carp for their fasts, and now swarm with speckled trout.

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**Who acts:** It, ponds, monks · **What happens:** conduct, supply, deny, swarm, speckle, fast · **To what, where:** us, number, denying monks

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, ponds, monks), 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:pg74323:8:1
# text = It conducts us first past a number of ponds, which formerly supplied the self-denying monks with carp for their fasts, and now swarm with speckled trout.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	conducts	conduct	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
5	past	past	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	supplied	supply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	denying	deny	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	carp	carp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	fasts	fast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	swarm	swarm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	speckled	speckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	trout	trout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | present | It | us |  | a number of ponds |  | first *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme past number=Destination |
| 2 | **supply** | past | ponds |  | the denying monks |  |  | with carp for monks's fasts; formerly *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent monk=Recipient with carp=Theme |
| 3 | **deny** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | self *compound* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **swarm** | present |  |  |  |  | now | with speckled trout | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with trout=Theme |
| 5 | **speckle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fast** |  | monks *= monk* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fast «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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