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title: They drank for hours, till all were _hors de combat_ save four knigh… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: They drank for hours, till all were _hors de combat_ save four knights. Who acts: guests, hors. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8, 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 8, sentence 97

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They drank for hours, till all were \_hors de combat\_ save four knights.

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**Who acts:** guests, hors · **What happens:** drink, be, save · **To what, where:** four knights

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests, hors), 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:pg74323:25:97
# text = They drank for hours, till all were _hors de combat_ save four knights.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	till	till	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	hors	hor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
12	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
14	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | guests *= guest* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | till all hors and de combat | de combat *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | present | all hors and de combat | four knights |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=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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