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title: And strong arms seized him and threw him in the dungeon on damp straw. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: And strong arms seized him and threw him in the dungeon on damp straw. Who acts: strong arms. 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 118

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And strong arms seized him and threw him in the dungeon on damp straw.

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**Who acts:** strong arms · **What happens:** seize, throw · **To what, where:** leader, dungeon

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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 (strong 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:pg74323:7:118
# text = And strong arms seized him and threw him in the dungeon on damp straw.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | strong arms | leader |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **throw** | past | strong arms *not said here* | leader |  | the dungeon |  | on damp straw | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in dungeon=Destination |

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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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