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title: A light sighing stirs in the foliage like a ghostly breath from the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A light sighing stirs in the foliage like a ghostly breath from the primeval days. Who acts: light. 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 66

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A light sighing stirs in the foliage like a ghostly breath from the primeval days.

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**Who acts:** light · **What happens:** sigh · **To what, where:** stirs, foliage, light

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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 (light), 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:pg74323:8:66
# text = A light sighing stirs in the foliage like a ghostly breath from the primeval days.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	sighing	sigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	stirs	stir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	ghostly	ghostly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	primeval	primeval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sigh** | gerund | a light *not said here* | stirs |  | the foliage | day | like a ghostly breath | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stir=Topic |

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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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