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title: [1] In Germany an annual festival is held in commemoration of the de… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: [1] In Germany an annual festival is held in commemoration of the dedication of the church of the place, called the _Kirchweihfest_--dedication festival. 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
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 35

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\[1\] In Germany an annual festival is held in commemoration of the dedication of the church of the place, called the \_Kirchweihfest\_--dedication festival.

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**What happens:** hold, call, commemorate · **To what, where:** annual festival, commemoration, dedication · **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: 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:pg74323:15:35
# text = [1] In Germany an annual festival is held in commemoration of the dedication of the church of the place, called the _Kirchweihfest_--dedication festival.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	annual	annual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	commemoration	commemoration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dedication	dedication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Kirchweihfest	Kirchweihfest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	dedication	dedication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present · passive |  | a annual festival |  | commemoration of the dedication of the church of the place and dedication festival |  | 1 in Germany *discourse* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in commemoration=Location |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the dedication of the church of the place *not said here* |  |  |  | the Kirchweihfest *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **commemorate** |  |  | the dedication of the church of the place |  |  |  |  | nom commemoration «event 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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