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title: Many of these ruins on the borders of the Harz mountains remind us o… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Many of these ruins on the borders of the Harz mountains remind us of Henry the Fowler, who built them to defend the plains and homes of this part of Germany from the wild and lawless Huns. Who acts: Many, Fowler. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 7

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Many of these ruins on the borders of the Harz mountains remind us of Henry the Fowler, who built them to defend the plains and homes of this part of Germany from the wild and lawless Huns.

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**Who acts:** Many, Fowler · **What happens:** remind, build, defend · **To what, where:** us, ruins, plains

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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: who acts (Many, Fowler), 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:pg74323:18:7
# text = Many of these ruins on the borders of the Harz mountains remind us of Henry the Fowler, who built them to defend the plains and homes of this part of Germany from the wild and lawless Huns.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Harz	Harz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	remind	remind	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Fowler	fowler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	lawless	lawless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Huns	Hun	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remind** *speech: other* | present | Many of this ruins on the borders of the Harz mountains |  | us |  |  | of Henry | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent we=Recipient of henry=Topic |
| 2 | **build** | past | the Fowler | ruins *= ruin* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
| 3 | **defend** | to-infinitive | the Fowler *not said here* | the plains of this part of Germany and homes |  |  |  | from the wild and lawless Huns | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent plain=Beneficiary from wild=Theme |

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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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