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title: From the rocky cliff the whole company leaped into the depths, and h… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: From the rocky cliff the whole company leaped into the depths, and huge blocks of granite and high pines sank after them and buried their mangled bodies in eternal night. Who acts: huge blocks. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 58

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From the rocky cliff the whole company leaped into the depths, and huge blocks of granite and high pines sank after them and buried their mangled bodies in eternal night.

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**Who acts:** huge blocks · **What happens:** leap, sink, bury, mangle · **To what, where:** whole company, depths, rocky cliff, mangled bodies

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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 (huge blocks), 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:pg74323:22:58
# text = From the rocky cliff the whole company leaped into the depths, and huge blocks of granite and high pines sank after them and buried their mangled bodies in eternal night.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	granite	granite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mangled	mangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | participle |  | the whole company *not said here* |  | the depths |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into depth=Destination |
| 2 | **sink** | past | huge blocks of granite and high pines |  |  | the rocky cliff | after pines *= pine* |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **bury** | past | huge blocks of granite and high pines *not said here* | blocks's mangled bodies |  |  | night |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 4 | **mangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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