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title: A mass of scoria, the greater part of which has been employed on the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A mass of scoria, the greater part of which has been employed on the _chaussée_, once marked the spot. Who acts: mass. 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 87

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A mass of scoria, the greater part of which has been employed on the \_chaussée\_, once marked the spot.

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**Who acts:** mass · **What happens:** employ, mark · **To what, where:** chaussée, spot

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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 (mass), 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:pg74323:24:87
# text = A mass of scoria, the greater part of which has been employed on the _chaussée_, once marked the spot.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	scoria	scoria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	chaussée	chaussée	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	advmod	_	_
21	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  | the chaussée |  | of the greater part | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP» |
| 2 | **mark** | past | a mass of scoria | the spot |  |  |  | once *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent spot=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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