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title: In the year 479, according to the chroniclers, the sharp contest bet… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In the year 479, according to the chroniclers, the sharp contest between the tribes of Thuringia and the Sassen[1] took place for the possession of the Harz mountains. Who acts: chroniclers. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, with it
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 27

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In the year 479, according to the chroniclers, the sharp contest between the tribes of Thuringia and the Sassen\[1\] took place for the possession of the Harz mountains.

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**Who acts:** chroniclers · **What happens:** accord, take, possess · **To what, where:** place, Harz mountains

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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 (chroniclers), 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:pg74323:4:27
# text = In the year 479, according to the chroniclers, the sharp contest between the tribes of Thuringia and the Sassen[1] took place for the possession of the Harz mountains.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
4	479	479	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	case	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chroniclers	chronicler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Thuringia	Thuringia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Sassen	Sassen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
25	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Harz	Harz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | the chroniclers | place |  |  | year | for the possession of the Harz mountains | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent place=Theme for possession=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **possess** |  |  | the Harz mountains |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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