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title: Many centuries ago there lay in the valley of the little river Siebe… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Many centuries ago there lay in the valley of the little river Sieber, where now is the Long Meadow, copper-works. Who acts: Many centuries. 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 clau
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 86

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Many centuries ago there lay in the valley of the little river Sieber, where now is the Long Meadow, copper-works.

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**Who acts:** Many centuries · **What happens:** lie, be · **To what, where:** valley, Long Meadow

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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 (Many centuries), 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:pg74323:24:86
# text = Many centuries ago there lay in the valley of the little river Sieber, where now is the Long Meadow, copper-works.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Sieber	Sieber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Many centuries |  |  | the valley of river Sieber; there |  | ago *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in valley=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the Long Meadow and copper works |  |  | now | copper works *conj* | 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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