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title: Rejoiced to think of his treasure, he dived into his pockets for the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Rejoiced to think of his treasure, he dived into his pockets for the gold--and what did he find? 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 every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 80

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Rejoiced to think of his treasure, he dived into his pockets for the gold--and what did he find?

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**Who acts:** name · **What happens:** rejoice, think, dive, find, treasure · **To what, where:** pockets

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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:pg74323:9:80
# text = Rejoiced to think of his treasure, he dived into his pockets for the gold--and what did he find?
1	Rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	dived	dive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | participle | name *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | name *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of name's treasure | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dive** | past | name |  |  | name's pockets for the gold |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pocket=Location |
| 4 | **find** | past · do-support | name |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 5 | **treasure** |  | name |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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