Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 41

The tradition is quite as probable that Askanas, grandson of Noah, died on the Wolfsberg in 1964 after the Creation, having left the East a few centuries previously to escape idolatry.

Who acts: tradition, Askanas, having · What happens: be, die, have, leave, escape · To what, where: Wolfsberg, East, idolatry

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 (tradition, Askanas, having), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tradition	det
2	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 probable	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 probable	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 probable	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 probable	case
6	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 died	mark
8	Askanas	Askanas	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 died	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grandson	punct
10	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Askanas	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Noah	case
12	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 grandson	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Askanas	punct
14	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 probable	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 Wolfsberg	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Wolfsberg	det
17	Wolfsberg	Wolfsberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 died	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 1964	case
19	1964	1964	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 died	obl
20	after	after	ADP	_	22 Creation	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Creation	det
22	Creation	creation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 died	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 having	punct
24	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 left	csubj
25	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 probable	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 East	det
27	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 left	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 centuries	det
29	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 centuries	amod
30	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 left	obl:unmarked
31	previously	previously	ADV	_	25 left	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 escape	mark
33	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 left	advcl
34	idolatry	idolatry	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 escape	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 probable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the tradition				probable property	tree rules
2	die	past	Askanas		the Wolfsberg	after the Creation	in 1964	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1964=Attribute
3	have	gerund						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	leave	past	having	the East		century	previously property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent east=Theme
5	escape	to-infinitive	having not said here	idolatry				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme idolatry=Initial_Location

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 41