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title: The knight Claus, founder of Clausthal, once saw this wild man on th… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The knight Claus, founder of Clausthal, once saw this wild man on the Wildmann's Cliffs, with a fir-tree, torn up by the roots, in his hand, and a bear on his. back. Who acts: knight. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with its depen
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 40

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The knight Claus, founder of Clausthal, once saw this wild man on the Wildmann's Cliffs, with a fir-tree, torn up by the roots, in his hand, and a bear on his. back.

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**Who acts:** knight · **What happens:** see, tear up · **To what, where:** wild man, Cliffs, fir tree

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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 (knight), 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:pg74323:22:40
# text = The knight Claus, founder of Clausthal, once saw this wild man on the Wildmann's Cliffs, with a fir-tree, torn up by the roots, in his hand, and a bear on his. back.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	founder	founder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Clausthal	Clausthal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Wildmann	Wildmann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	Cliffs	Cliff	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
42	back	back	ADV	RB	_	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the knight | this wild man |  | the Wildmann's Cliffs |  | with a fir tree; a bear *obl*; once *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tear up** | participle |  | a fir tree *not said here* |  |  |  | by the roots and knight's hand | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by root=Trajectory |

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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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