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title: Hunting was his pleasure and passion, and daily he ranged, with his… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Hunting was his pleasure and passion, and daily he ranged, with his men, the wood, which resounded with the barking of dogs and the notes of the horn, which filled the clefts and caves of the rocks and mountains with a thousand-voiced echo. Who acts: Hunting, St., wood, horn. A sentence of «Legends 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 46

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Hunting was his pleasure and passion, and daily he ranged, with his men, the wood, which resounded with the barking of dogs and the notes of the horn, which filled the clefts and caves of the rocks and mountains with a thousand-voiced echo.

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**Who acts:** Hunting, St., wood, horn · **What happens:** be, range, resound, fill, voice, note · **To what, where:** pleasure, men, clefts, horn

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunting, St., wood, horn), 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:pg74323:22:46
# text = Hunting was his pleasure and passion, and daily he ranged, with his men, the wood, which resounded with the barking of dogs and the notes of the horn, which filled the clefts and caves of the rocks and mountains with a thousand-voiced echo.
1	Hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ranged	range	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	resounded	resound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	barking	barking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	clefts	cleft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
47	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	voiced	voice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	amod	_	_
50	echo	echo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Hunting | St.'s pleasure and passion |  |  |  | St. *nmod:poss*; passion *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **range** | past | St. | St.'s men and the wood |  |  |  | daily *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme |
| 3 | **resound** | past | the wood |  |  |  |  | with the barking of dogs and the notes of the horn | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with barking=Theme |
| 4 | **fill** | past | the horn | the clefts of the rocks and mountains and caves |  |  |  | with a voiced echo | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cleft=Patient with echo=Instrument |
| 5 | **voice** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | thousand *compound* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **note** |  |  | the horn |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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