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title: It was the morning of St. John's Day, and every Härzer knows that St… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the morning of St. John's Day, and every Härzer knows that St. John's Eve and St. John's Day are rich in miracles in these mountains, and unfold many a mysterious flower. Who acts: valley, Härzer, John. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tale
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 96

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It was the morning of St. John's Day, and every Härzer knows that St. John's Eve and St. John's Day are rich in miracles in these mountains, and unfold many a mysterious flower.

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**Who acts:** valley, Härzer, John · **What happens:** be, know, unfold · **To what, where:** morning, miracles, many · **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 (valley, Härzer, John), 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:pg74323:9:96
# text = It was the morning of St. John's Day, and every Härzer knows that St. John's Eve and St. John's Day are rich in miracles in these mountains, and unfold many a mysterious flower.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	Härzer	Härzer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
16	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:desc	_	_
22	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	miracles	miracle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	unfold	unfold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
35	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	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** | past | valley | the morning |  |  | of John  St.'s Day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | every Härzer |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | John  St. and John  St.'s Day |  |  | miracles in this mountains |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **unfold** | infinitive | every Härzer *not said here* | many |  |  |  | a mysterious flower *obj* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent many=Patient flower=Result |

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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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