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title: So Hatebolt rode till he came to a stone mountain, which was, as if… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: So Hatebolt rode till he came to a stone mountain, which was, as if by nature, formed for a stronghold. Who acts: Hatebolt, stone mountain. 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 claus
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 33

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So Hatebolt rode till he came to a stone mountain, which was, as if by nature, formed for a stronghold.

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**Who acts:** Hatebolt, stone mountain · **What happens:** ride, come, be, form · **To what, where:** stone mountain, nature

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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 (Hatebolt, stone mountain), 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:pg74323:4:33
# text = So Hatebolt rode till he came to a stone mountain, which was, as if by nature, formed for a stronghold.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Hatebolt	Hatebolt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | Hatebolt |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | Hatebolt |  |  | a stone mountain |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | a stone mountain |  |  |  |  | as nature | tree rules |
| 4 | **form** | participle |  | nature *not said here* |  |  |  | for a stronghold | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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