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title: More frequently resounds the tread of the hunter in this lonely spot… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: More frequently resounds the tread of the hunter in this lonely spot, and of the herdsman, who pastures his cows in the beech forest. Who acts: hunter. 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
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 17

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More frequently resounds the tread of the hunter in this lonely spot, and of the herdsman, who pastures his cows in the beech forest.

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**Who acts:** hunter · **What happens:** resound, pasture, tread · **To what, where:** tread, lonely spot, cows, beech forest

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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 (hunter), 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:pg74323:9:17
# text = More frequently resounds the tread of the hunter in this lonely spot, and of the herdsman, who pastures his cows in the beech forest.
1	More	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
2	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	resounds	resound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tread	tread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	pastures	pasture	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	beech	beech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resound** | present |  | the tread of the hunter |  | this lonely spot |  | frequently *property* | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tread=Theme |
| 2 | **pasture** | present |  | student's cows |  | the beech forest |  | of the herdsman; who *nsubj* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cow=Theme in forest=Destination |
| 3 | **tread** |  | the hunter |  |  |  |  |  | nom tread «act intransitive»: of=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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