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title: There is perhaps no cave in all Germany concerning which so many leg… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: There is perhaps no cave in all Germany concerning which so many legends and traditions are in the mouth of the people as this Weingartenloch. Who acts: cave. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 164

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There is perhaps no cave in all Germany concerning which so many legends and traditions are in the mouth of the people as this Weingartenloch.

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**Who acts:** cave · **What happens:** be, concern · **To what, where:** mouth

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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 (cave), 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:pg74323:20:164
# text = There is perhaps no cave in all Germany concerning which so many legends and traditions are in the mouth of the people as this Weingartenloch.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	Weingartenloch	Weingartenloch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no cave in all Germany |  |  | there |  | perhaps *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | no cave in all Germany *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as this Weingartenloch | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the mouth |  | of the people; which *nsubj*; many legends and traditions *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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