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title: McIverich, King of Thuringia, with his army thirsting for war, cross… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: McIverich, King of Thuringia, with his army thirsting for war, crossed the mountains to repulse the Sassen then dwelling on the north borders of the Harz. Who acts: army, McIverich. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, with its depende
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 28

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McIverich, King of Thuringia, with his army thirsting for war, crossed the mountains to repulse the Sassen then dwelling on the north borders of the Harz.

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**Who acts:** army, McIverich · **What happens:** thirst, cross, repulse, dwell · **To what, where:** mountains, Sassen, north borders

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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 (army, McIverich), 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:pg74323:4:28
# text = McIverich, King of Thuringia, with his army thirsting for war, crossed the mountains to repulse the Sassen then dwelling on the north borders of the Harz.
1	McIverich	McIverich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Thuringia	Thuringia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
10	thirsting	thirst	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	repulse	repulse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Sassen	Sassen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Harz	Harz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thirst** | gerund | McIverich's army *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for war | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for war=Theme |
| 2 | **cross** | past | McIverich | the mountains |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient |
| 3 | **repulse** | to-infinitive | McIverich *not said here* | the Sassen |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sassen=Experiencer |
| 4 | **dwell** | gerund | McIverich *not said here* |  |  | the north borders of the Harz | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on border=Location |

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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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