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title: The mountain called the Haarburg, which has a summit of only small c… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The mountain called the Haarburg, which has a summit of only small circumference, bore in a long-forgotten time a fortress, which, like most ancient castles, consisted of a single strong tower. Who acts: mountain. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 52

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The mountain called the Haarburg, which has a summit of only small circumference, bore in a long-forgotten time a fortress, which, like most ancient castles, consisted of a single strong tower.

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**Who acts:** mountain · **What happens:** call, have, forget, consist · **To what, where:** mountain, summit, most ancient castles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountain), 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:pg74323:23:52
# text = The mountain called the Haarburg, which has a summit of only small circumference, bore in a long-forgotten time a fortress, which, like most ancient castles, consisted of a single strong tower.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Haarburg	Haarburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	circumference	circumference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bore	bore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fortress	fortress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
30	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	consisted	consist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | the mountain *not said here* |  |  |  | the Haarburg *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | the mountain | a summit of small circumference |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summit=Patient |
| 3 | **forget** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **consist** | participle |  | most ancient castles  a fortress and most ancient castles  a fortress and most ancient castles *not said here* |  |  |  | of a single strong tower | 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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