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title: In the grey days long ago, when paganism ruled the land, there stood… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In the grey days long ago, when paganism ruled the land, there stood on the hills near the cave called the Steinkirche--altars to the gods. Who acts: paganism. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 100

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In the grey days long ago, when paganism ruled the land, there stood on the hills near the cave called the Steinkirche--altars to the gods.

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**Who acts:** paganism · **What happens:** rule, stand, call · **To what, where:** land, hills, cave · **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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (paganism), 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:pg74323:15:100
# text = In the grey days long ago, when paganism ruled the land, there stood on the hills near the cave called the Steinkirche--altars to the gods.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	paganism	paganism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	near	near	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Steinkirche	Steinkirche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	altars	altar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | paganism | the land |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | the hills; there | day | near the cave and altars; to the gods | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | the cave and altars *not said here* |  |  |  | the Steinkirche *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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