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title: Oft hast thou said to me, 'For Werner's faithfulness where shall I f… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Oft hast thou said to me, 'For Werner's faithfulness where shall I find a worthy reward?' Who acts: thou, I. 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 89

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Oft hast thou said to me, 'For Werner's faithfulness where shall I find a worthy reward?'

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**Who acts:** thou, I · **What happens:** have, say, find · **To what, where:** me, worthy reward · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (thou, I), 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:pg74323:8:89
# text = Oft hast thou said to me, 'For Werner's faithfulness where shall I find a worthy reward?'
1	Oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	For	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Werner	Werner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	faithfulness	faithfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | thou |  | me |  |  | Werner's faithfulness *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
| 3 | **find** | shall | I | a worthy reward |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Topic |

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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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