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title: The cliffs of the ruinated Giant Castle wear mourning still, and bea… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The cliffs of the ruinated Giant Castle wear mourning still, and bear the name of the hero, the Romerstein, or Romar's rock. Who acts: cliffs. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 40

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The cliffs of the ruinated Giant Castle wear mourning still, and bear the name of the hero, the Romerstein, or Romar's rock.

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**Who acts:** cliffs · **What happens:** ruinat, bear, name · **To what, where:** name, hero

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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 (cliffs), 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:pg74323:16:41
# text = The cliffs of the ruinated Giant Castle wear mourning still, and bear the name of the hero, the Romerstein, or Romar's rock.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	ruinated	ruinat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
6	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	wear	wear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bear	bear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Romerstein	Romerstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	Romar	Romar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ruinat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | infinitive | the cliffs of the ruinated Giant Castle wear mourning | the name of the hero |  |  |  | the Romerstein *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | the hero |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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