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title: Some even, as if in joke, bent their cross-bows toward him, and one… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Some even, as if in joke, bent their cross-bows toward him, and one pointed iron bolt lodged in the trunk of a rotten tree close by him. Who acts: joke. 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 o
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 98

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Some even, as if in joke, bent their cross-bows toward him, and one pointed iron bolt lodged in the trunk of a rotten tree close by him.

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**Who acts:** joke · **What happens:** bend, lodge · **To what, where:** cross-bows, one pointed iron bolt, trunk

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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 (joke), 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:pg74323:7:98
# text = Some even, as if in joke, bent their cross-bows toward him, and one pointed iron bolt lodged in the trunk of a rotten tree close by him.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	cross-bows	cross-bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
17	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bolt	bolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	lodged	lodge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | past | joke | soldiers's cross-bows |  |  |  | toward fulfilment | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent cross-bow=Material |
| 2 | **lodge** | participle | joke *not said here* | one pointed iron bolt |  | the trunk of a rotten tree |  | close *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trunk=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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