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title: A name given to the devil; since when he appeared in disguise to dec… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A name given to the devil; since when he appeared in disguise to deceive people, he is said to have used this hypocritical expression. Who acts: name. 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 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 76

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A name given to the devil; since when he appeared in disguise to deceive people, he is said to have used this hypocritical expression.

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**Who acts:** name · **What happens:** give, appear, deceive, say, use · **To what, where:** name, disguise, people, hypocritical expression · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), 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:pg74323:9:76
# text = A name given to the devil; since when he appeared in disguise to deceive people, he is said to have used this hypocritical expression.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	xcomp	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	hypocritical	hypocritical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | participle |  | a name *not said here* |  |  |  | the devil *obl:agent* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **appear** | past | a name |  |  | disguise |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in disguise=Location |
| 3 | **deceive** | to-infinitive | a name *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | this hypocritical expression |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Patient |

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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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