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title: On the summit of one of these hills once stood seven trees called th… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: On the summit of one of these hills once stood seven trees called the Seven Brothers, of which now no trace remains. Who acts: trace. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1, 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 1, sentence 105

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On the summit of one of these hills once stood seven trees called the Seven Brothers, of which now no trace remains.

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**Who acts:** trace · **What happens:** stand, call, remain · **To what, where:** seven trees, summit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (trace), 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:pg74323:2:105
# text = On the summit of one of these hills once stood seven trees called the Seven Brothers, of which now no trace remains.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Seven	Seven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | seven trees |  | the summit of one of this hills |  | once *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme on summit=Destination |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | seven trees *not said here* |  |  |  | the Seven Brothers *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **remain** | present | no trace |  |  |  | now | which *obl* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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