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title: He replied, "Yes, the Harz is highly interesting, but chiefly so thr… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He replied, "Yes, the Harz is highly interesting, but chiefly so through its old leg-ends." Who acts: history, Harz. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, 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 3, sentence 125

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He replied, "Yes, the Harz is highly interesting, but chiefly so through its old leg-ends."

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**Who acts:** history, Harz · **What happens:** reply, be · **To what, where:** old leg ends · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (history, Harz), 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:pg74323:4:125
# text = He replied, "Yes, the Harz is highly interesting, but chiefly so through its old leg-ends."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Harz	Harz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | history |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Harz |  |  |  | through Harz's old leg ends | highly, interesting *property* | 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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