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title: [1] In the Harz it is said all children born on Sunday are always fo… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: [1] In the Harz it is said all children born on Sunday are always fortunate. Who acts: children. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 46

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\[1\] In the Harz it is said all children born on Sunday are always fortunate.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** say, bear, be · **To what, where:** Harz, children · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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:pg74323:6:46
# text = [1] In the Harz it is said all children born on Sunday are always fortunate.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Harz	Harz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
12	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Harz |  | the Harz |  | 1 *discourse* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in harz=Manner |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  | all children *not said here* |  |  | sunday |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | all children |  |  |  |  | always, fortunate *property* | tree rules |

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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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