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title: One morning a farmer rode before sunrise from Ballenstedt to Quedlin… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning a farmer rode before sunrise from Ballenstedt to Quedlinburg, to offer prayers and obtain absolution in the convent church, only just founded by the Kaiserin Matilda--for in Ballenstedt there was neither church nor pater. Who acts: farmer rode. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Har
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 43

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One morning a farmer rode before sunrise from Ballenstedt to Quedlinburg, to offer prayers and obtain absolution in the convent church, only just founded by the Kaiserin Matilda--for in Ballenstedt there was neither church nor pater.

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**Who acts:** farmer rode · **What happens:** offer, obtain, found · **To what, where:** prayers, absolution, convent church

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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: who acts (farmer rode), 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:pg74323:9:43
# text = One morning a farmer rode before sunrise from Ballenstedt to Quedlinburg, to offer prayers and obtain absolution in the convent church, only just founded by the Kaiserin Matilda--for in Ballenstedt there was neither church nor pater.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	rode	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Ballenstedt	Ballenstedt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Quedlinburg	Quedlinburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	obtain	obtain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	absolution	absolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Kaiserin	Kaiserin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Matilda	Matilda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Ballenstedt	Ballenstedt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	36	expl	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	38	cc:preconj	_	_
38	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
39	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	40	cc	_	_
40	pater	pater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | to-infinitive | a farmer rode before sunrise from Ballenstedt to Quedlinburg | prayers |  |  | morning |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme |
| 2 | **obtain** | present | a farmer rode before sunrise from Ballenstedt to Quedlinburg *not said here* | absolution |  | the convent church |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset absolution=Theme |
| 3 | **found** | participle | a farmer rode before sunrise from Ballenstedt to Quedlinburg *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the Kaiserin Matilda; for Ballenstedt | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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