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title: In the grey primeval days dwelt in this savage wilderness a mighty h… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In the grey primeval days dwelt in this savage wilderness a mighty hunter, hard and rough as the rocks on which his house stood. Who acts: house. 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
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 45

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In the grey primeval days dwelt in this savage wilderness a mighty hunter, hard and rough as the rocks on which his house stood.

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**Who acts:** house · **What happens:** dwell, stand · **To what, where:** mighty hunter, savage wilderness, rocks

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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 (house), 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:pg74323:22:45
# text = In the grey primeval days dwelt in this savage wilderness a mighty hunter, hard and rough as the rocks on which his house stood.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	primeval	primeval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
6	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past |  | a mighty hunter |  | this savage wilderness | day |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hunter=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | St.'s house |  |  | the rocks |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |

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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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