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title: "At length came the terrible battle of Mars la Tour--St. Hilaire, or… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "At length came the terrible battle of Mars la Tour--St. Hilaire, or Vionville--in the burning heat of August--the 16th it was--and Major Franz Omnesky was among the missing. Who acts: Major Franz Omnesky. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 81

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"At length came the terrible battle of Mars la Tour--St. Hilaire, or Vionville--in the burning heat of August--the 16th it was--and Major Franz Omnesky was among the missing.

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**Who acts:** Major Franz Omnesky · **What happens:** come, burn, be, battle · **To what, where:** terrible battle, length, burning heat, Mars la Tour

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Major Franz Omnesky), 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:pg74323:5:81
# text = "At length came the terrible battle of Mars la Tour--St. Hilaire, or Vionville--in the burning heat of August--the 16th it was--and Major Franz Omnesky was among the missing.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	la	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Tour	Tour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Hilaire	Hilaire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Vionville	Vionville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	16th	16th	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	Major	Major	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	Franz	Franz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Omnesky	Omnesky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	among	among	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | past |  | the terrible battle of Mars la Tour and Hilaire  St. or Vionville |  | length |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location battle=Theme |
| 2 | **burn** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  | the burning heat | august |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Major Franz Omnesky |  |  |  |  | missing *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **battle** *in a quote* |  |  | Mars la Tour and Hilaire  St. or Vionville |  |  |  |  | nom battle «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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