--- title: Stubborn is the conflict, surrounded and shut in, his position seems… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: Stubborn is the conflict, surrounded and shut in, his position seems terrible, and the onlooking Huns cry out, "Shall we hasten to his aid?" Who acts: Stubborn conflict, onlooking Huns, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stubborn conflict, onlooking Huns, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:11:61 # text = Stubborn is the conflict, surrounded and shut in, his position seems terrible, and the onlooking Huns cry out, "Shall we hasten to his aid?" 1 Stubborn stubborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 conflict conflict NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 9 in in ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 position position NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 onlooking onlook VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 amod _ _ 19 Huns Hun PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 cry cry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 hasten hasten VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 aid aid NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ? ? PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | the Stubborn conflict | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **surround** | participle | | the Stubborn conflict *not said here* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **shut in** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **seem** | present | the Stubborn conflict | | | | | conflict's position *nsubj*; terrible *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **onlook** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **cry out** *speech: express* | present | the onlooking Huns | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **hasten** *in a quote* | shall | we | | | conflict's aid | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to aid=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/62/) - ↑ back to [Legends and Tales., part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/)