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title: Not even a ghostly monk haunts the ruins, nor wanders by moonlight i… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Not even a ghostly monk haunts the ruins, nor wanders by moonlight in the venerable cloisters. Who acts: ghostly monk. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 51

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Not even a ghostly monk haunts the ruins, nor wanders by moonlight in the venerable cloisters.

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**Who acts:** ghostly monk · **What happens:** not haunt · **To what, where:** ruins

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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 (ghostly monk), 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:pg74323:8:51
# text = Not even a ghostly monk haunts the ruins, nor wanders by moonlight in the venerable cloisters.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	ghostly	ghostly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	haunts	haunt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
11	wanders	wander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cloisters	cloister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **haunt** | present | a ghostly monk | the ruins |  |  |  | by moonlight in the venerable cloisters; wanders *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ruin=Experiencer |

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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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