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title: This imperial convent Gandersheim, once endowed with such wealth and… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: This imperial convent Gandersheim, once endowed with such wealth and power, was founded by Duke Ludolf of Saxony in the last half of the ninth century. Who acts: Duke Ludolf. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2, with its dependency tre
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 97

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This imperial convent Gandersheim, once endowed with such wealth and power, was founded by Duke Ludolf of Saxony in the last half of the ninth century.

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**Who acts:** Duke Ludolf · **What happens:** endow, found · **To what, where:** imperial convent, last half

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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 (Duke Ludolf), 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:pg74323:19:97
# text = This imperial convent Gandersheim, once endowed with such wealth and power, was founded by Duke Ludolf of Saxony in the last half of the ninth century.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	Gandersheim	Gandersheim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
7	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Ludolf	Ludolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Saxony	Saxony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	15	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endow** | participle |  | this imperial convent *not said here* |  |  |  | with such wealth and power; once *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wealth=Theme |
| 2 | **found** | past · passive | Duke Ludolf of Saxony | this imperial convent |  | the last half of the ninth century |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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