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title: We ascend this dale, and stand by the ruins of the old church Michae… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: We ascend this dale, and stand by the ruins of the old church Michaelstein, the mother of the later Kloster. Who acts: We. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 5

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We ascend this dale, and stand by the ruins of the old church Michaelstein, the mother of the later Kloster.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** ascend, stand, ruin · **To what, where:** dale, old church

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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), 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:pg74323:8:5
# text = We ascend this dale, and stand by the ruins of the old church Michaelstein, the mother of the later Kloster.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ascend	ascend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	Michaelstein	Michaelstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	Kloster	Kloster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascend** | present | We | this dale |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dale=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stand** | infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the ruins of the old church | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by ruin=Location |
| 3 | **ruin** |  |  | the old church |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state 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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