Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 29
His squire Ramm dismounted, tied his horse to a tree, and went after some game that had been shot.
Who acts: squire, game · What happens: dismount, tie, go, be · To what, where: horse, shot
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squire, game), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 squire | nmod:poss |
| 2 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dismounted | nsubj |
| 3 | Ramm | Ramm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 squire | appos |
| 4 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tied | punct |
| 6 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dismounted | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tied | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tied | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dismounted | conj |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 game | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 game | det |
| 17 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 shot | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 shot | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 shot | cop |
| 21 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 game | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | forest's squire | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tie | past | forest's squire not said here | forest's horse | to a tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | go | past | forest's squire not said here | after some game | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past · perfect | some game | shot | tree rules |
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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