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title: Seldom is the spot trodden by the foot of man, except by some benigh… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Seldom is the spot trodden by the foot of man, except by some benighted traveller, some inquisitive student of history, and the passionate lover of wood and mountain solitude. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8, with its dependency tr
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 16

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Seldom is the spot trodden by the foot of man, except by some benighted traveller, some inquisitive student of history, and the passionate lover of wood and mountain solitude.

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**What happens:** be, tread, benight · **To what, where:** spot

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg74323:9:16
# text = Seldom is the spot trodden by the foot of man, except by some benighted traveller, some inquisitive student of history, and the passionate lover of wood and mountain solitude.
1	Seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	trodden	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	except	except	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	benighted	benight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	inquisitive	inquisitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	passionate	passionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	solitude	solitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the spot and the passionate lover of wood and mountain solitude |  |  |  | the passionate lover of wood and mountain solitude *conj*; seldom *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tread** | participle |  | the spot and the passionate lover of wood and mountain solitude *not said here* |  |  |  | by the foot of man; except some benighted traveller and some inquisitive student of history | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by foot=Trajectory |
| 3 | **benight** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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