Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 46
These primeval mountaineers were most disturbed by a wild and powerful monastic tribe of giant size and strength, who frequently broke into the mountains, plundered their huts, murdered children, women, and old men, and led away the strong men into slavery.
Who acts: wild monastic tribe, strength · What happens: disturb, break, plunder, murder, lead away · To what, where: primeval mountaineers, mountains, huts, children, strong men, slavery
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 (wild monastic tribe, strength), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 mountaineers | det |
| 2 | primeval | primeval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mountaineers | amod |
| 3 | mountaineers | mountaineer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 disturbed | advmod |
| 6 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 tribe | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tribe | det |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tribe | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 powerful | cc |
| 11 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wild | conj |
| 12 | monastic | monastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tribe | amod |
| 13 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disturbed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 size | case |
| 15 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 size | amod |
| 16 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tribe | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 strength | cc |
| 18 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 size | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 broke | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 broke | nsubj |
| 21 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 22 broke | advmod |
| 22 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 strength | acl:relcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 mountains | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mountains | det |
| 25 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 broke | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 plundered | punct |
| 27 | plundered | plunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 disturbed | conj |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 huts | nmod:poss |
| 29 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 plundered | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 murdered | punct |
| 31 | murdered | murder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 plundered | conj |
| 32 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 murdered | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 women | punct |
| 34 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 children | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 men | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 men | cc |
| 37 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 men | amod |
| 38 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 plundered | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 led | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 led | cc |
| 41 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 plundered | conj |
| 42 | away | away | ADV | _ | 41 led | advmod |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 men | det |
| 44 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 men | amod |
| 45 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 led | obj |
| 46 | into | into | ADP | _ | 47 slavery | case |
| 47 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 led | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 disturbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disturb | past · passive | a wild monastic tribe of giant size and strength | this primeval mountaineers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | break | past | strength | into the mountains result; frequently property | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into mountain=Result | ||||
| 3 | plunder | past | a wild monastic tribe of giant size and strength not said here | mountaineers's huts | old men obl | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Source | |||
| 4 | murder | past | a wild monastic tribe of giant size and strength not said here | children and women | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 5 | lead away | past | a wild monastic tribe of giant size and strength not said here | the strong men | slavery | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme into slavery=Destination |
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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