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title: In the Goslar Cathedral, of which now but a small remnant remains, o… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Goslar Cathedral, of which now but a small remnant remains, once existed a colossal wooden statue of this renowned Saint with the Christ-Child on his back. Who acts: Goslar Cathedral. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, with it
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 72

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In the Goslar Cathedral, of which now but a small remnant remains, once existed a colossal wooden statue of this renowned Saint with the Christ-Child on his back.

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**Who acts:** Goslar Cathedral · **What happens:** remains, exist · **To what, where:** colossal wooden statue, Goslar Cathedral

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goslar Cathedral), 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:pg74323:21:72
# text = In the Goslar Cathedral, of which now but a small remnant remains, once existed a colossal wooden statue of this renowned Saint with the Christ-Child on his back.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Goslar	Goslar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Cathedral	Cathedral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	remnant	remnant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
16	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	colossal	colossal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
23	renowned	renowned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Child	Child	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remains** |  | the Goslar Cathedral but a small remnant remains |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exist** | past |  | a colossal wooden statue of renowned Saint  this |  | the Goslar Cathedral but a small remnant remains |  | with the Christ Child; on child's back; once *property* | 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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