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title: It is even disputed that a person called Hackelberg existed, and if… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: It is even disputed that a person called Hackelberg existed, and if so, the legend is ages older than the sixteenth century, the time when he is said to have lived. Who acts: person, legend. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12, with i
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 33

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It is even disputed that a person called Hackelberg existed, and if so, the legend is ages older than the sixteenth century, the time when he is said to have lived.

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**Who acts:** person, legend · **What happens:** dispute, call, exist, be, say, live · **To what, where:** origin, person · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, legend), 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:pg74323:13:33
# text = It is even disputed that a person called Hackelberg existed, and if so, the legend is ages older than the sixteenth century, the time when he is said to have lived.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	Hackelberg	Hackelberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
10	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	parataxis	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux	_	_
34	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dispute** | present · passive |  | origin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a person *not said here* |  |  |  | Hackelberg *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **exist** | past | a person |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the legend |  |  |  | ages; century | old *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **live** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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