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title: But hunger drove us this time to take some peas from your field. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But hunger drove us this time to take some peas from your field. Who acts: hunger. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6, 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 6, sentence 10

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But hunger drove us this time to take some peas from your field.

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**Who acts:** hunger · **What happens:** drive, take · **To what, where:** us, peas, field

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunger), 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:pg74323:23:10
# text = But hunger drove us this time to take some peas from your field.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past | hunger | us |  |  | time |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | hunger *not said here* | some peas |  | your field |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent pea=Theme from field=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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