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title: And louder and nearer thundered the wild call of the hunters, the hu… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And louder and nearer thundered the wild call of the hunters, the hunting horns came fearfully near, and as the hounds would seize their prey, the stag, in deathly terror, made the leap into the frightful deeps. Who acts: hunting horns, hounds. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains»
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 55

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And louder and nearer thundered the wild call of the hunters, the hunting horns came fearfully near, and as the hounds would seize their prey, the stag, in deathly terror, made the leap into the frightful deeps.

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**Who acts:** hunting horns, hounds · **What happens:** thunder, come, seize, make, call · **To what, where:** wild call, prey, leap, frightful deeps, hunters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 horns, hounds), 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:pg74323:22:55
# text = And louder and nearer thundered the wild call of the hunters, the hunting horns came fearfully near, and as the hounds would seize their prey, the stag, in deathly terror, made the leap into the frightful deeps.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	nearer	near	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	thundered	thunder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	near	near	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	deathly	deathly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	deeps	deep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thunder** | past |  | the wild call of the hunters |  |  |  | near *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent call=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the hunting horns |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **seize** | would | the hounds | hounds's prey and the stag |  |  |  | deathly terror *parataxis* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past |  | the leap |  | the frightful deeps |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent leap=Material into deep=Product |
| 5 | **call** |  |  | the hunters |  |  |  |  | nom call «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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