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title: The aged Earl has followed his daughter, and amid their astonishment… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The aged Earl has followed his daughter, and amid their astonishment and joy, Conrad explains how he was severely wounded and taken prisoner, and had not for long years been able to escape. Who acts: Conrad, long years, amid. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 76

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The aged Earl has followed his daughter, and amid their astonishment and joy, Conrad explains how he was severely wounded and taken prisoner, and had not for long years been able to escape.

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**Who acts:** Conrad, long years, amid · **What happens:** follow, explain, be, take, have, not be · **To what, where:** aged Earl, astonishment, prisoner · **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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conrad, long years, amid), 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:pg74323:2:76
# text = The aged Earl has followed his daughter, and amid their astonishment and joy, Conrad explains how he was severely wounded and taken prisoner, and had not for long years been able to escape.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Conrad	Conrad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	cop	_	_
34	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	ccomp	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present · perfect · passive |  | the aged Earl |  |  |  | joy's daughter *obj*; amid and amid's astonishment and joy *parataxis* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme daughter=Attribute |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | Conrad | amid's astonishment and joy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Conrad |  |  |  |  | severely, wounded *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | participle | Conrad *not said here* | prisoner |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **is** | participle | long years |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **escape** | to-infinitive | long years *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **astonish** |  | amid |  |  |  |  |  | nom astonishment «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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