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title: Countess Gisela, of the Harzgau, whose seat was Blankenburg Schloss,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Countess Gisela, of the Harzgau, whose seat was Blankenburg Schloss, after the death of her husband, Earl Unwan, built Kloster Wenthusen, and other convents and churches. Who acts: seat, Gisela, husband. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., pa
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 44

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Countess Gisela, of the Harzgau, whose seat was Blankenburg Schloss, after the death of her husband, Earl Unwan, built Kloster Wenthusen, and other convents and churches.

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**Who acts:** seat, Gisela, husband · **What happens:** be, build, die · **To what, where:** Blankenburg Schloss, Kloster

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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 (seat, Gisela, husband), 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:pg74323:8:44
# text = Countess Gisela, of the Harzgau, whose seat was Blankenburg Schloss, after the death of her husband, Earl Unwan, built Kloster Wenthusen, and other convents and churches.
1	Countess	countess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Gisela	Gisela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Harzgau	Harzgau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	Blankenburg	Blankenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Schloss	schloss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
22	Unwan	Unwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
24	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	Kloster	Kloster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	Wenthusen	Wenthusen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	convents	convent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Blankenburg Schloss's seat | Blankenburg Schloss |  |  |  | the death of Blankenburg's husband *appos*; Earl *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | past | Gisela  Countess and the Harzgau | Kloster |  |  |  | other convents and churches *parataxis* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kloster=Product |
| 3 | **die** |  | Blankenburg's husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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