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title: Home-like, and at the same time sublime, silent, and solitary, must… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Home-like, and at the same time sublime, silent, and solitary, must have been this now destroyed seat of kaisers and princes in the mysterious Middle Ages. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 2

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Home-like, and at the same time sublime, silent, and solitary, must have been this now destroyed seat of kaisers and princes in the mysterious Middle Ages.

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**What happens:** destroy, be · **To what, where:** destroyed seat

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. 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:pg74323:18:2
# text = Home-like, and at the same time sublime, silent, and solitary, must have been this now destroyed seat of kaisers and princes in the mysterious Middle Ages.
1	Home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
10	sublime	sublime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	solitary	solitary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	kaisers	kaiser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
32	Ages	Age	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | participle |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | must · perfect |  | this destroyed seat |  |  | now; time | of kaisers in the mysterious Middle Ages and princes | 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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