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title: One seated himself here, another there, another leaned on his spear,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: One seated himself here, another there, another leaned on his spear, and all listened in silence and attention to what the strange figure might have to say to them. Who acts: One, strange figure. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15, w
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 2

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One seated himself here, another there, another leaned on his spear, and all listened in silence and attention to what the strange figure might have to say to them.

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**Who acts:** One, strange figure · **What happens:** seat, lean, listen, have, say · **To what, where:** peculiar, leaned spear, all, silence · **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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, strange figure), 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:pg74323:16:2
# text = One seated himself here, another there, another leaned on his spear, and all listened in silence and attention to what the strange figure might have to say to them.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nmod:poss	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
10	leaned	lean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past | One | peculiar |  | another's leaned spear; here |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value |
| 2 | **lean** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **listen** | participle · passive |  | all |  | silence and attention |  | what *obl* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | might | the strange figure |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the strange figure *not said here* |  | silence |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |

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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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