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title: A fearful tempest sweeps over the mountains. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A fearful tempest sweeps over the mountains. Who acts: fearful tempest. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 101

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A fearful tempest sweeps over the mountains.

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**Who acts:** fearful tempest · **What happens:** sweep · **To what, where:** mountains

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fearful tempest), 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:pg74323:19:101
# text = A fearful tempest sweeps over the mountains.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sweeps	sweep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | present | a fearful tempest |  |  | the mountains |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Trajectory |

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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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