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title: All sank in the gulf, which closed again, and nothing was left of th… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: All sank in the gulf, which closed again, and nothing was left of the castle but a deep round spot where it had stood. Who acts: gulf. 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 clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 78

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All sank in the gulf, which closed again, and nothing was left of the castle but a deep round spot where it had stood.

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**Who acts:** gulf · **What happens:** sink, close, leave, stand · **To what, where:** gulf, nothing, tower

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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 (gulf), 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:pg74323:16:79
# text = All sank in the gulf, which closed again, and nothing was left of the castle but a deep round spot where it had stood.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gulf	gulf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past |  |  |  | the gulf |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **close** | past | the gulf |  |  |  | again |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | past · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  | of the castle but a deep round spot | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of castle=Destination |
| 4 | **stand** | past · perfect · passive |  | tower |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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