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title: The Sausenburg was on the left bank of the Bode, about an hour's wal… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sausenburg was on the left bank of the Bode, about an hour's walk from Elbingerode. Who acts: Sausenburg, hour. 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 61

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The Sausenburg was on the left bank of the Bode, about an hour's walk from Elbingerode.

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**Who acts:** Sausenburg, hour · **What happens:** be, walk · **To what, where:** left bank, Elbingerode

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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 (Sausenburg, hour), 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:pg74323:8:61
# text = The Sausenburg was on the left bank of the Bode, about an hour's walk from Elbingerode.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sausenburg	Sausenburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Bode	Bode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Elbingerode	Elbingerode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Sausenburg |  |  | the left bank and a hour's walk from Elbingerode |  | of the Bode; a hour's walk from Elbingerode *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** |  | a hour |  |  | Elbingerode |  |  | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent from=place |

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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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