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title: In St. Andreasberg the tradition is, he was a monk who sought to ope… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In St. Andreasberg the tradition is, he was a monk who sought to open the mines there, but failed. Who acts: tradition, monk. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 34

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In St. Andreasberg the tradition is, he was a monk who sought to open the mines there, but failed.

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**Who acts:** tradition, monk · **What happens:** be, seek, open, fail · **To what, where:** monk, Andreasberg, mines

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tradition, monk), 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:pg74323:22:34
# text = In St. Andreasberg the tradition is, he was a monk who sought to open the mines there, but failed.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Andreasberg	Andreasberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the tradition | a monk |  | Andreasberg  St. |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seek** | past | a monk |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **open** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a monk *not said here* | the mines |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mine=Theme |
| 4 | **fail** | past | a monk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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