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title: From the windings of the Bode, a huge greenstone rock rises steep an… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: From the windings of the Bode, a huge greenstone rock rises steep and rugged, partially overgrown with the _Planta genista_, or wild broom, and creeping plants, nearly its entire base being washed by the waves of the clear mountain stream. Who acts: huge greenstone rock, waves. A sentence of «Legend
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 73

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From the windings of the Bode, a huge greenstone rock rises steep and rugged, partially overgrown with the \_Planta genista\_, or wild broom, and creeping plants, nearly its entire base being washed by the waves of the clear mountain stream.

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**Who acts:** huge greenstone rock, waves · **What happens:** rise, overgrow, creep, wash, wave · **To what, where:** windings, plants, entire base, clear mountain stream

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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 (huge greenstone rock, waves), 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:pg74323:7:73
# text = From the windings of the Bode, a huge greenstone rock rises steep and rugged, partially overgrown with the _Planta genista_, or wild broom, and creeping plants, nearly its entire base being washed by the waves of the clear mountain stream.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	windings	winding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Bode	Bode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	greenstone	greenstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	rugged	rugged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	partially	partially	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Planta	planta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	genista	genista	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
32	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
38	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl:agent	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | present | a huge greenstone rock |  |  | the windings of the Bode |  | wild broom *conj*; steep *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from winding=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **overgrow** | participle | a huge greenstone rock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the Planta genista; partially *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **creep** | gerund | a huge greenstone rock *not said here* | plants |  |  |  | broom's entire base *conj* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location plant=Theme |
| 4 | **wash** | gerund · passive | the waves of the clear mountain stream | broom's entire base *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wave** |  |  | the clear mountain stream |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event 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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