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title: These reflections were all the more bitter since there was a traditi… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: These reflections were all the more bitter since there was a tradition in the village that he himself was a descendant of the ancient Ritter who once ruled in the Treseburg. Who acts: reflections, tradition, ancient Ritter. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Le
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 78

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These reflections were all the more bitter since there was a tradition in the village that he himself was a descendant of the ancient Ritter who once ruled in the Treseburg.

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**Who acts:** reflections, tradition, ancient Ritter · **What happens:** be, rule · **To what, where:** descendant, Treseburg

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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 (reflections, tradition, ancient Ritter), 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:pg74323:7:78
# text = These reflections were all the more bitter since there was a tradition in the village that he himself was a descendant of the ancient Ritter who once ruled in the Treseburg.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	reflections	reflection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	descendant	descendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Ritter	ritter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	28	advmod	_	_
28	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Treseburg	Treseburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this reflections |  |  |  |  | bitter *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | a tradition in the village |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | tradition | a descendant |  |  |  | of the ancient Ritter | tree rules |
| 4 | **rule** | past | the ancient Ritter |  |  | the Treseburg |  | once *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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