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title: It is about a German mile, which is equal to four and seven-tenths o… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: It is about a German mile, which is equal to four and seven-tenths of an English mile. Who acts: distance, German mile. 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 13

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It is about a German mile, which is equal to four and seven-tenths of an English mile.

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**Who acts:** distance, German mile · **What happens:** be

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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 (distance, German mile), 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:pg74323:9:13
# text = It is about a German mile, which is equal to four and seven-tenths of an English mile.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tenths	tenth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | distance |  |  |  |  | about a German mile | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | a German mile |  |  |  |  | to four; seven tenths of a English mile *conj*; equal *property* | tree rules |

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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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