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title: The Nikolai church still stands, shaded by old lindens, and at its w… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Nikolai church still stands, shaded by old lindens, and at its west end the shepherds' two towers. Who acts: Nikolai church. 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 83

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The Nikolai church still stands, shaded by old lindens, and at its west end the shepherds' two towers.

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**Who acts:** Nikolai church · **What happens:** stand, shade

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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 (Nikolai church), 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:pg74323:24:83
# text = The Nikolai church still stands, shaded by old lindens, and at its west end the shepherds' two towers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Nikolai	Nikolai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	shaded	shade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lindens	linden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | the Nikolai church |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shade** | participle | the Nikolai church *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by old lindens and the shepherds's two towers at contrary's west end | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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