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title: [1] _Stunde_, speaking of distance in Germany, signifies the distanc… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: [1] _Stunde_, speaking of distance in Germany, signifies the distance a man can walk in an hour. Who acts: Stunde, man. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8, 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 8, sentence 12

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\[1\] \_Stunde\_, speaking of distance in Germany, signifies the distance a man can walk in an hour.

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**Who acts:** Stunde, man · **What happens:** speak, signify, walk · **To what, where:** Germany, distance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stunde, man), 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:pg74323:9:12
# text = [1] _Stunde_, speaking of distance in Germany, signifies the distance a man can walk in an hour.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Stunde	Stunde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	signifies	signify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | Stunde *not said here* |  |  | Germany |  | of distance | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **signify** | present | Stunde | the distance |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot distance=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | can | a man | the distance *not said here* |  |  | hour |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory |

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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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