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title: The Kaiser, who is yet near, turns in joyful surprise in the directi… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Kaiser, who is yet near, turns in joyful surprise in the direction of the voice. " Who acts: Kaiser. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8, 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 8, sentence 5

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The Kaiser, who is yet near, turns in joyful surprise in the direction of the voice. "

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**Who acts:** Kaiser · **What happens:** be, turn · **To what, where:** joyful surprise

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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 (Kaiser), 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:pg74323:9:5
# text = The Kaiser, who is yet near, turns in joyful surprise in the direction of the voice. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Kaiser	Kaiser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	near	near	ADV	RB	_	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	joyful	joyful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | yet | who *nsubj*; near *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | present | the Kaiser |  |  | joyful surprise |  | in the direction of the voice | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in surprise=Source in direction=Trajectory |

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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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