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title: [3] _Weidemann_, or _Waldemann_, signifies sportsman--hunter--ranger. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: [3] _Weidemann_, or _Waldemann_, signifies sportsman--hunter--ranger. Who acts: Waldemann. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6, 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 6, sentence 37

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\[3\] \_Weidemann\_, or \_Waldemann\_, signifies sportsman--hunter--ranger.

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**Who acts:** Waldemann · **What happens:** signify · **To what, where:** sportsman, 3

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Waldemann), 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:pg74323:7:37
# text = [3] _Weidemann_, or _Waldemann_, signifies sportsman--hunter--ranger.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Weidemann	Weidemann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Waldemann	Waldemann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
13	signifies	signify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	sportsman	sportsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	ranger	ranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **signify** | present | Waldemann | sportsman and hunter and ranger |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sportsman=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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