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title: Arm-in-arm, struck by the stroke, they sank lifeless to the ground. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Arm-in-arm, struck by the stroke, they sank lifeless to the ground. Who acts: arms. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 20

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Arm-in-arm, struck by the stroke, they sank lifeless to the ground.

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**Who acts:** arms · **What happens:** strike, sink · **To what, where:** arm

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arms), 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:pg74323:4:20
# text = Arm-in-arm, struck by the stroke, they sank lifeless to the ground.
1	Arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
14	lifeless	lifeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | participle |  | arm  Arm *not said here* |  |  |  | by the stroke | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by stroke=Location |
| 2 | **sink** | past | arms *= arm* | arm  Arm *not said here* |  |  |  | lifeless *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=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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