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title: [1] The Hercynia Sylva of the Romans was of greater extent than the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: [1] The Hercynia Sylva of the Romans was of greater extent than the Harz mountains. Who acts: Hercynia Sylva. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8, 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 8, sentence 42

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\[1\] The Hercynia Sylva of the Romans was of greater extent than the Harz mountains.

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**Who acts:** Hercynia Sylva · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hercynia Sylva), 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:pg74323:25:42
# text = [1] The Hercynia Sylva of the Romans was of greater extent than the Harz mountains.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Hercynia	Hercynia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Sylva	Sylva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Harz	Harz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Hercynia Sylva of the Romans |  |  |  |  | of greater extent; than the Harz mountains | 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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