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title: They are storming again already, and our men are so weak from hunger… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: They are storming again already, and our men are so weak from hunger and thirst, they can scarcely stand. Who acts: squires, men. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6, 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 6, sentence 107

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They are storming again already, and our men are so weak from hunger and thirst, they can scarcely stand.

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**Who acts:** squires, men · **What happens:** storm, be, stand · **To what, where:** hunger

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (squires, men), 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:pg74323:7:107
# text = They are storming again already, and our men are so weak from hunger and thirst, they can scarcely stand.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	storming	storm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	already	already	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **storm** | present · progressive | squires *= squire* |  |  |  | again |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 2 | **is** | present | our men |  |  | hunger and thirst |  | weak *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | can | squires *= squire* |  |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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