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title: From the south side the height is connected by a narrow tongue of la… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: From the south side the height is connected by a narrow tongue of land with the vast forests that cover the high table-lands of the Harz. Who acts: narrow tongue, vast forests. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8, with its dependency t
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 15

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From the south side the height is connected by a narrow tongue of land with the vast forests that cover the high table-lands of the Harz.

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**Who acts:** narrow tongue, vast forests · **What happens:** connect, cover · **To what, where:** height, south side, high table lands

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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 (narrow tongue, vast forests), 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:pg74323:9:15
# text = From the south side the height is connected by a narrow tongue of land with the vast forests that cover the high table-lands of the Harz.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	cover	cover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Harz	Harz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connect** | present · passive | a narrow tongue of land | the height |  | the south side |  | with the vast forests | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient with forest=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **cover** | present | the vast forests | the high table lands of the Harz |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Destination |

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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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