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title: This spot--this hermitage--was once a renowned shrine, and thousands… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: This spot--this hermitage--was once a renowned shrine, and thousands flocked here to seek consolation, for in the cave was a grave where were said to rest the bones of the Virgin Mary. Who acts: spot, thousands. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Ta
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 10

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This spot--this hermitage--was once a renowned shrine, and thousands flocked here to seek consolation, for in the cave was a grave where were said to rest the bones of the Virgin Mary.

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**Who acts:** spot, thousands · **What happens:** be, flock, seek, say, rest · **To what, where:** renowned shrine, consolation, cave, bones · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spot, thousands), 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:pg74323:8:10
# text = This spot--this hermitage--was once a renowned shrine, and thousands flocked here to seek consolation, for in the cave was a grave where were said to rest the bones of the Virgin Mary.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	hermitage	hermitage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	renowned	renowned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shrine	shrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	flocked	flock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	consolation	consolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this spot and this hermitage | a renowned shrine |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **flock** | past | thousands | a renowned shrine *not said here* |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seek** | to-infinitive | thousands *not said here* | consolation |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consolation=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | thousands *not said here* |  |  | the cave |  | for a grave | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: clause=Topic |
| 6 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  | the bones of the Virgin Mary |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bone=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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