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title: Another legend relates how a wealthy countryman had lent an Earl von… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Another legend relates how a wealthy countryman had lent an Earl von Regenstein a large sum of money, but when he came to demand payment was repulsed with scorn and derision. Who acts: legend, Regenstein. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., p
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 64

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Another legend relates how a wealthy countryman had lent an Earl von Regenstein a large sum of money, but when he came to demand payment was repulsed with scorn and derision.

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**Who acts:** legend, Regenstein · **What happens:** relate, lend, come, demand, repulse, sum · **To what, where:** wealthy countryman, payment, money · **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 (legend, Regenstein), 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:pg74323:4:64
# text = Another legend relates how a wealthy countryman had lent an Earl von Regenstein a large sum of money, but when he came to demand payment was repulsed with scorn and derision.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	relates	relate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	countryman	countryman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	lent	lend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	13	compound	_	_
13	Regenstein	Regenstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	demand	demand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	repulsed	repulse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	ccomp	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	scorn	scorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	derision	derision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | present | another legend |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lend** | past · perfect · passive |  | a wealthy countryman |  |  |  | a Earl von Regenstein *obj*; a large sum of money *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | Regenstein |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **demand** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | Regenstein *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 5 | **repulse** | past · passive |  | payment |  |  |  | with scorn and derision | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 6 | **sum** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession 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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