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description: Rejoiced to see the boar stretched at his feet, he kicked the tusk with violence, exclaiming, "Thou shalt not yet kill me!" Who acts: boar, Thou. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 14

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Rejoiced to see the boar stretched at his feet, he kicked the tusk with violence, exclaiming, "Thou shalt not yet kill me!"

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**Who acts:** boar, Thou · **What happens:** rejoice, see, stretch, kick, exclaim, not kill · **To what, where:** boar, feet, tusk · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boar, Thou), 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:pg74323:13:14
# text = Rejoiced to see the boar stretched at his feet, he kicked the tusk with violence, exclaiming, "Thou shalt not yet kill me!"
1	Rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tusk	tusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
22	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | participle | boar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | boar *not said here* | the boar |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boar=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stretch** | participle |  | the boar *not said here* |  | boar's feet |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **kick** | past | boar | the tusk |  |  |  | with violence | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tusk=Patient with violence=Instrument |
| 5 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | gerund | boar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **kill** *in a quote* | shall | Thou | boar |  |  | yet |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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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