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title: The tradition is quite as probable that Askanas, grandson of Noah, d… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The tradition is quite as probable that Askanas, grandson of Noah, died on the Wolfsberg in 1964 after the Creation, having left the East a few centuries previously to escape idolatry. Who acts: tradition, Askanas, having. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Leg
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 41

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The tradition is quite as probable that Askanas, grandson of Noah, died on the Wolfsberg in 1964 after the Creation, having left the East a few centuries previously to escape idolatry.

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**Who acts:** tradition, Askanas, having · **What happens:** be, die, have, leave, escape · **To what, where:** Wolfsberg, East, idolatry

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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 (tradition, Askanas, having), 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:pg74323:11:41
# text = The tradition is quite as probable that Askanas, grandson of Noah, died on the Wolfsberg in 1964 after the Creation, having left the East a few centuries previously to escape idolatry.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	Askanas	Askanas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	grandson	grandson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
14	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Wolfsberg	Wolfsberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1964	1964	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Creation	creation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	csubj	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
34	idolatry	idolatry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the tradition |  |  |  |  | probable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | past | Askanas |  |  | the Wolfsberg | after the Creation | in 1964 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1964=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **leave** | past | having | the East |  |  | century | previously *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent east=Theme |
| 5 | **escape** | to-infinitive | having *not said here* | idolatry |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme idolatry=Initial\_Location |

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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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