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title: From the charter granted by Kaiser Otto, we learn that this cave was… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: From the charter granted by Kaiser Otto, we learn that this cave was not first occupied by Volkmar; but that a hermitess, Liutburga, dwelt in it long before. Who acts: we, Volkmar. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7, with its dependen
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 16

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From the charter granted by Kaiser Otto, we learn that this cave was not first occupied by Volkmar; but that a hermitess, Liutburga, dwelt in it long before.

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**Who acts:** we, Volkmar · **What happens:** grant, learn, not occupy, dwell · **To what, where:** charter, cave, hermitess · **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 (we, Volkmar), 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:pg74323:8:16
# text = From the charter granted by Kaiser Otto, we learn that this cave was not first occupied by Volkmar; but that a hermitess, Liutburga, dwelt in it long before.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	charter	charter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kaiser	Kaiser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
7	Otto	Otto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	_
17	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Volkmar	Volkmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hermitess	hermitess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Liutburga	Liutburga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
28	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
32	before	before	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | participle |  | the charter *not said here* |  |  |  | Kaiser *obl:agent* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **learn** | present | we |  |  | the charter |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source how S»: agent=Agent from charter=Source clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **occupy** | past · passive | Volkmar | this cave |  |  |  | first *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **dwell** | past | we *not said here* |  |  | hermitess |  | before *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |

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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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