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title: The two released prisoners followed with joyful gestures, hand in ha… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The two released prisoners followed with joyful gestures, hand in hand. Who acts: two released prisoners. 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 46

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The two released prisoners followed with joyful gestures, hand in hand.

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**Who acts:** two released prisoners · **What happens:** release, follow

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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 (two released prisoners), 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:pg74323:23:46
# text = The two released prisoners followed with joyful gestures, hand in hand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	joyful	joyful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gestures	gesture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **release** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **follow** | past | the two released prisoners |  |  |  |  | with joyful gestures | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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