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title: At that time a monk of Kloster Reifenstein sat in the dungeon of the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: At that time a monk of Kloster Reifenstein sat in the dungeon of the Rabenthurm[1]--now called the Adlerthurm[2]---under sentence of death. Who acts: monk. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 140

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At that time a monk of Kloster Reifenstein sat in the dungeon of the Rabenthurm\[1\]--now called the Adlerthurm\[2\]---under sentence of death.

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**Who acts:** monk · **What happens:** sit, call, sentence · **To what, where:** dungeon, death · **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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monk), 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:pg74323:14:141
# text = At that time a monk of Kloster Reifenstein sat in the dungeon of the Rabenthurm[1]--now called the Adlerthurm[2]---under sentence of death.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Kloster	Kloster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Reifenstein	Reifenstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Rabenthurm	Rabenthurm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Adlerthurm	Adlerthurm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	---	---	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | a monk of Kloster |  |  | the dungeon of the Rabenthurm | time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dungeon=Location |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  | now | the Adlerthurm *xcomp*; sentence of death *conj* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sentence** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom sentence «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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