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title: One day, sitting there conversing in German, chance led the celebrat… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, sitting there conversing in German, chance led the celebrated Marshal Moritz von Saxony past them. Who acts: chance. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 73

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One day, sitting there conversing in German, chance led the celebrated Marshal Moritz von Saxony past them.

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**Who acts:** chance · **What happens:** sit, converse, lead, celebrate · **To what, where:** German, celebrated Marshal von Saxony

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chance), 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:pg74323:3:73
# text = One day, sitting there conversing in German, chance led the celebrated Marshal Moritz von Saxony past them.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	conversing	converse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
14	Marshal	Marshal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
15	Moritz	Moritz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	17	compound	_	_
17	Saxony	Saxony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
18	past	past	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  | there | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **converse** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  | German |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lead** | past | chance | the celebrated Marshal von Saxony |  |  |  | past tears *= tear* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent saxony=Theme past they=Destination |
| 4 | **celebrate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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