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title: The hunted stag groaned, and escaped his pursuers with his last stre… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The hunted stag groaned, and escaped his pursuers with his last strength. Who acts: hunted stag. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 53

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The hunted stag groaned, and escaped his pursuers with his last strength.

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**Who acts:** hunted stag · **What happens:** hunt, groan, escape · **To what, where:** pursuers

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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 (hunted stag), 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:pg74323:22:53
# text = The hunted stag groaned, and escaped his pursuers with his last strength.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	groaned	groan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	pursuers	pursuer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **hunt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **groan** | past | the hunted stag |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **escape** | past | the hunted stag *not said here* | stag's pursuers |  |  |  | with stag's last strength | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pursuer=Initial\_Location |

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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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