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title: Perhaps the Hun Stones still standing between Heimburg and Benzinger… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps the Hun Stones still standing between Heimburg and Benzingerode have reference to this fiery collision, and the ancient burial-places discovered in the vicinity were the graves of those fallen in this contest. Who acts: Hun Stones, ancient burial places. A sentence of «Legends and tales of t
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 31

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Perhaps the Hun Stones still standing between Heimburg and Benzingerode have reference to this fiery collision, and the ancient burial-places discovered in the vicinity were the graves of those fallen in this contest.

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**Who acts:** Hun Stones, ancient burial places · **What happens:** stand, have, discover, be, fall · **To what, where:** Heimburg, reference, ancient burial places, vicinity, graves, contest

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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 (Hun Stones, ancient burial places), 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:pg74323:4:31
# text = Perhaps the Hun Stones still standing between Heimburg and Benzingerode have reference to this fiery collision, and the ancient burial-places discovered in the vicinity were the graves of those fallen in this contest.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Hun	Hun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Stones	Stone	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Heimburg	Heimburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Benzingerode	Benzingerode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	collision	collision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
24	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	vicinity	vicinity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	nmod	_	_
33	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund | the Hun Stones *not said here* |  |  | Heimburg and Benzingerode | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between heimburg=Location |
| 2 | **have** | present | the Hun Stones | reference |  |  |  | to this fiery collision; perhaps *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reference=Patient |
| 3 | **discover** | participle |  | the ancient burial places *not said here* |  | the vicinity |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the ancient burial places | the graves |  |  |  | of those | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  | this contest |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in contest=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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