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title: A legend is told in Ellrich of an Earl von Klettenberg--not the devo… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A legend is told in Ellrich of an Earl von Klettenberg--not the devout founder of the Huy Wald Abbey, whose forsaken wife built Kloster Walkenried. Who acts: forsaken wife. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8, with its dependency tree 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 95

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A legend is told in Ellrich of an Earl von Klettenberg--not the devout founder of the Huy Wald Abbey, whose forsaken wife built Kloster Walkenried.

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**Who acts:** forsaken wife · **What happens:** tell, forsake, build · **To what, where:** legend, Ellrich, Kloster · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (forsaken wife), 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:pg74323:25:95
# text = A legend is told in Ellrich of an Earl von Klettenberg--not the devout founder of the Huy Wald Abbey, whose forsaken wife built Kloster Walkenried.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ellrich	Ellrich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	9	flat	_	_
11	Klettenberg	Klettenberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	devout	devout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	founder	founder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Huy	Huy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Wald	Wald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	Abbey	Abbey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
27	Kloster	Kloster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	Walkenried	Walkenried	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | a legend | Ellrich of a Earl Klettenberg |  |  | the devout founder of the Huy Wald *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient ellrich=Topic |
| 2 | **forsake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **build** | past | forsaken wife | Kloster |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kloster=Product |

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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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