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title: There, on the mountain west of Thale, where in its bosom the antedil… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: There, on the mountain west of Thale, where in its bosom the antediluvian giant animal skeletons were found, an old warrior had received permission from the Kaiser to clear the land. Who acts: mountain. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., par
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 3

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There, on the mountain west of Thale, where in its bosom the antediluvian giant animal skeletons were found, an old warrior had received permission from the Kaiser to clear the land.

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**Who acts:** mountain · **What happens:** find, receive, clear, bosom · **To what, where:** antediluvian giant animal skeletons, bosom, old warrior, land

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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 (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:pg74323:24:3
# text = There, on the mountain west of Thale, where in its bosom the antediluvian giant animal skeletons were found, an old warrior had received permission from the Kaiser to clear the land.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	west	west	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Thale	Thale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	antediluvian	antediluvian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
27	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Kaiser	Kaiser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive |  | the antediluvian giant animal skeletons |  | mountain's bosom |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **receive** | past · perfect · passive |  | a old warrior |  |  |  | permission *obj* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme permission=Location |
| 3 | **clear** | to-infinitive |  | the land |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent land=Source |
| 5 | **bosom** |  | mountain |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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