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title: Once came a shepherd from Kloster Walkenried and pastured his flock… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Once came a shepherd from Kloster Walkenried and pastured his flock in the vicinity of the mountain. Who acts: shepherd. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, 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 7, sentence 115

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Once came a shepherd from Kloster Walkenried and pastured his flock in the vicinity of the mountain.

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**Who acts:** shepherd · **What happens:** come, pasture · **To what, where:** Kloster, flock, vicinity

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd), 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:pg74323:24:115
# text = Once came a shepherd from Kloster Walkenried and pastured his flock in the vicinity of the mountain.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kloster	Kloster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	Walkenried	Walkenried	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pastured	pasture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	vicinity	vicinity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a shepherd |  |  | Kloster |  | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from kloster=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pasture** | past | a shepherd *not said here* | Kloster's flock |  | the vicinity of the mountain |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flock=Theme in vicinity=Destination |

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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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