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title: They went together one day hunting to the Schalk, when the youngest… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: They went together one day hunting to the Schalk, when the youngest saw three partridges, and shot at one of them. Who acts: Brothers, youngest. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 112

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They went together one day hunting to the Schalk, when the youngest saw three partridges, and shot at one of them.

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**Who acts:** Brothers, youngest · **What happens:** go together, hunt, see, shoot · **To what, where:** three partridges

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brothers, youngest), 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:pg74323:21:112
# text = They went together one day hunting to the Schalk, when the youngest saw three partridges, and shot at one of them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Schalk	schalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	partridges	partridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go together** | past | Brothers *= brother* |  |  |  | day | together *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** | gerund | Brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Schalk | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | the youngest | three partridges |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer partridge=Stimulus |
| 4 | **shoot** | past | the youngest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at one of Brothers | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at one=Destination |

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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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