Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 37
[3] The custom of digging up the young oak is now limited to once every fifteen years.
Who acts: custom · What happens: dig up, limit · To what, where: young oak, custom
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (custom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 limited | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 custom | det |
| 5 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 limited | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 digging | mark |
| 7 | digging | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 custom | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 digging | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 oak | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 oak | amod |
| 11 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 digging | obj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 limited | aux:pass |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 limited | advmod |
| 14 | limited | limit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 once | mark |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 limited | obl |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 years | det |
| 18 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 limited | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 limited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig up | gerund | the custom not said here | the young oak | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent oak=Theme | ||||
| 2 | limit | present · passive | the custom | now; year | 3 obl | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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.
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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