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title: But Volkmar was not fallen in battle, but had been only severely wou… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But Volkmar was not fallen in battle, but had been only severely wounded and taken prisoner by the Wenden, and led away into their deep forests, and it was long before they gave him back his freedom. Who acts: angel. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends a
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 29

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But Volkmar was not fallen in battle, but had been only severely wounded and taken prisoner by the Wenden, and led away into their deep forests, and it was long before they gave him back his freedom.

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**Who acts:** angel · **What happens:** not fall, be, take, lead away · **To what, where:** Volkmar, battle, prisoner, deep forests

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel), 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:pg74323:8:29
# text = But Volkmar was not fallen in battle, but had been only severely wounded and taken prisoner by the Wenden, and led away into their deep forests, and it was long before they gave him back his freedom.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Volkmar	Volkmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
17	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Wenden	Wenden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
33	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
34	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	iobj	_	_
38	back	back	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fall** | past · passive |  | Volkmar |  | battle |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | severely, wounded *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | participle |  | prisoner |  |  |  | by the Wenden | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lead away** | past |  |  |  | tears's deep forests |  | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into forest=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | past | angel |  | Volkmar |  |  | tears *= tear* *nsubj*; Volkmar's freedom *obj*; give, long *property* | tree rules |

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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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