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title: In the midst of the bright landscape opposite Schloss Ballenstedt ri… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: In the midst of the bright landscape opposite Schloss Ballenstedt rise the two huge boulders called the Gegensteine, which mark the eastern termination of the Devil's Wall. Who acts: you, two huge boulders. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales.,
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 36

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In the midst of the bright landscape opposite Schloss Ballenstedt rise the two huge boulders called the Gegensteine, which mark the eastern termination of the Devil's Wall.

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**Who acts:** you, two huge boulders · **What happens:** rise, call, mark · **To what, where:** two huge boulders, midst, eastern termination · **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 (you, two huge boulders), 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:pg74323:9:36
# text = In the midst of the bright landscape opposite Schloss Ballenstedt rise the two huge boulders called the Gegensteine, which mark the eastern termination of the Devil's Wall.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	landscape	landscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Schloss	schloss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	Ballenstedt	Ballenstedt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	rise	rise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	boulders	boulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Gegensteine	Gegensteine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	mark	mark	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	termination	termination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Devil	Devil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	Wall	Wall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | imperative | you *not said here* | the two huge boulders |  | the midst of the bright opposite Schloss |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boulder=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the two huge boulders *not said here* |  |  |  | the Gegensteine *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mark** | present | the two huge boulders | the eastern termination of the Devil's Wall |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent termination=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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