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title: Before his death he expressed a wish that he might hunt for ever, an… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Before his death he expressed a wish that he might hunt for ever, and his rash desire was granted. Who acts: boar. 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 every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 19

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Before his death he expressed a wish that he might hunt for ever, and his rash desire was granted.

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**Who acts:** boar · **What happens:** express, hunt, grant, die, desire · **To what, where:** wish, rash desire

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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), 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:pg74323:13:19
# text = Before his death he expressed a wish that he might hunt for ever, and his rash desire was granted.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	rash	rash	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **express** | past | boar | a wish |  |  | before boar's death |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** | might | boar |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for ever=Theme |
| 3 | **grant** | past · passive |  | boar's rash desire |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **die** |  | boar |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **desire** |  | boar |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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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