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title: The mountain has ever since been called the Rosstrappe, and the Gian… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The mountain has ever since been called the Rosstrappe, and the Giant Bodo[6] gave his name to the valley and river. Who acts: mountain, Giant Bodo, Bodo. 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
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 53

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The mountain has ever since been called the Rosstrappe, and the Giant Bodo\[6\] gave his name to the valley and river.

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**Who acts:** mountain, Giant Bodo, Bodo · **What happens:** have, call, give, name · **To what, where:** name, valley · **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 (mountain, Giant Bodo, Bodo), 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:pg74323:2:53
# text = The mountain has ever since been called the Rosstrappe, and the Giant Bodo[6] gave his name to the valley and river.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
5	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Rosstrappe	Rosstrappe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Bodo	Bodo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the mountain |  |  |  | ever |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | participle · passive | the mountain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the Rosstrappe *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **give** | past | the Giant Bodo | Bodo's name | the valley and river |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to valley=Recipient |
| 4 | **name** |  | Bodo |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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