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title: Romar, a blooming youth of this race, was once hunting in the neighb… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Romar, a blooming youth of this race, was once hunting in the neighbouring forest for deer or wild boar. Who acts: Romar. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15, 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 15, sentence 19

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Romar, a blooming youth of this race, was once hunting in the neighbouring forest for deer or wild boar.

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**Who acts:** Romar · **What happens:** bloom, hunt, neighbour · **To what, where:** neighbouring forest

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Romar), 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:pg74323:16:20
# text = Romar, a blooming youth of this race, was once hunting in the neighbouring forest for deer or wild boar.
1	Romar	Romar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
12	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bloom** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** | past · progressive | Romar |  |  | the neighbouring forest |  | for deer or wild boar; once *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location for deer=Theme |
| 3 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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