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title: Near Wernigerode a bloody battle was fought, in which the Thuringian… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Near Wernigerode a bloody battle was fought, in which the Thuringians were defeated, and five thousand left dead on the field. Who acts: five thousand. 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
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 30

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Near Wernigerode a bloody battle was fought, in which the Thuringians were defeated, and five thousand left dead on the field.

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**Who acts:** five thousand · **What happens:** fight, defeat, leave · **To what, where:** bloody battle, Wernigerode, Thuringians, field

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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 (five thousand), 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:pg74323:4:30
# text = Near Wernigerode a bloody battle was fought, in which the Thuringians were defeated, and five thousand left dead on the field.
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Wernigerode	Wernigerode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Thuringians	Thuringian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	_
18	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
19	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
20	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past · passive |  | a bloody battle |  | Wernigerode |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **defeat** | past · passive |  | the Thuringians |  |  |  | which *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | participle | five thousand |  |  | the field |  | dead *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on field=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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