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title: There were two castles in the Harz mountains, both of which bore the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: There were two castles in the Harz mountains, both of which bore the name of Staufenburg; that near Zorge, an hour and a half from the beautiful ruins of Convent Walkenried. Who acts: two castles, both. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., par
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 157

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There were two castles in the Harz mountains, both of which bore the name of Staufenburg; that near Zorge, an hour and a half from the beautiful ruins of Convent Walkenried.

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**Who acts:** two castles, both · **What happens:** be, bear, name, ruin · **To what, where:** name, Staufenburg, Convent

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two castles, both), 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:pg74323:20:157
# text = There were two castles in the Harz mountains, both of which bore the name of Staufenburg; that near Zorge, an hour and a half from the beautiful ruins of Convent Walkenried.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Harz	Harz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Staufenburg	Staufenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
20	near	near	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Zorge	Zorge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	21	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Convent	Convent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	Walkenried	Walkenried	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | two castles in the Harz mountains |  |  | there |  | Zorge  that and a half from the beautiful ruins of Convent *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | past | both | the name of Staufenburg |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | Staufenburg |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **ruin** |  |  | Convent |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=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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