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title: In the thirteenth century there lived in Mühlhausen a respectable lo… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In the thirteenth century there lived in Mühlhausen a respectable locksmith, who was also an alderman. Who acts: respectable locksmith. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 22

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In the thirteenth century there lived in Mühlhausen a respectable locksmith, who was also an alderman.

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**Who acts:** respectable locksmith · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** respectable locksmith, Mühlhausen, alderman

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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 (respectable locksmith), 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:pg74323:15:22
# text = In the thirteenth century there lived in Mühlhausen a respectable locksmith, who was also an alderman.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	thirteenth	thirteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mühlhausen	Mühlhausen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	respectable	respectable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	locksmith	locksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	alderman	alderman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | a respectable locksmith and a alderman |  | Mühlhausen; there | century |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mühlhausen=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a respectable locksmith and a alderman | a alderman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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