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title: A similar tradition, with slight variations, is told of the _Burgmüh… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A similar tradition, with slight variations, is told of the _Burgmühle_, or castle mill, near Aschersleben, on the Wolfsberg. Who acts: Burgmühle. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 40

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A similar tradition, with slight variations, is told of the \_Burgmühle\_, or castle mill, near Aschersleben, on the Wolfsberg.

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**Who acts:** Burgmühle · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** similar tradition · **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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Burgmühle), 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:pg74323:11:40
# text = A similar tradition, with slight variations, is told of the _Burgmühle_, or castle mill, near Aschersleben, on the Wolfsberg.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	variations	variation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Burgmühle	Burgmühle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	near	near	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Aschersleben	Aschersleben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Wolfsberg	Wolfsberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | the Burgmühle | a similar tradition and slight variations |  |  |  | Aschersleben and the Wolfsberg *parataxis* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |

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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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