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title: This cave served centuries ago as the dwelling-place of a hermit nam… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: This cave served centuries ago as the dwelling-place of a hermit named Volkmar, and still bears his name. Who acts: cave. 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 7

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This cave served centuries ago as the dwelling-place of a hermit named Volkmar, and still bears his name.

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**Who acts:** cave · **What happens:** serve, name · **To what, where:** cave, hermit

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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 (cave), 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:pg74323:8:7
# text = This cave served centuries ago as the dwelling-place of a hermit named Volkmar, and still bears his name.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	Volkmar	Volkmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | participle |  | this cave and bears  cave's name *not said here* |  |  |  | as the dwelling place of a hermit; ago *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as place=Attribute |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a hermit *not said here* |  |  |  | Volkmar *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **name** |  | cave |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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