Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 10
Hans von Hackelberg, a master of the hunt in Brunswick, had an unhappy dream one night on the Harzburg; it seemed to him in his dream as if he struggled with a huge wild boar which conquered him after a long combat, and that he died of his wounds.
Who acts: Hans, it, hunter, huge wild boar, Brunswick · What happens: have, seem, struggle, conquer, die, dream · To what, where: unhappy dream, Harzburg, Brunswick, hunter
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, it, hunter, huge wild boar), 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 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | nsubj |
| 2 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 1 Hans | appos |
| 3 | Hackelberg | Hackelberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 von | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 master | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 master | det |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 von | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hunt | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hunt | det |
| 9 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 master | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Brunswick | case |
| 11 | Brunswick | Brunswick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hunt | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hans | punct |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dream | det |
| 15 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dream | amod |
| 16 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 night | nummod |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 Harzburg | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Harzburg | det |
| 21 | Harzburg | Harzburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 seemed | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 seemed | nsubj |
| 24 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 seemed | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 dream | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 dream | nmod:poss |
| 29 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seemed | obl |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 struggled | mark |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 struggled | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 struggled | nsubj |
| 33 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seemed | advcl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 boar | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 boar | det |
| 36 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 boar | amod |
| 37 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 boar | amod |
| 38 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 struggled | obl |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 conquered | nsubj |
| 40 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 boar | acl:relcl |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 conquered | obj |
| 42 | after | after | ADP | _ | 45 combat | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 combat | det |
| 44 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 combat | amod |
| 45 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 conquered | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 died | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 died | cc |
| 48 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 50 died | mark |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 died | nsubj |
| 50 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seemed | conj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 wounds | case |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 53 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 died | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Hans | a unhappy dream | the Harzburg | night | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | ||
| 2 | seem | past | it | Brunswick | in Brunswick's dream | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in dream=Attribute | |||
| 3 | struggle | past | hunter | with a huge wild boar | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with boar=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | conquer | past | a huge wild boar | hunter | after a long combat | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 5 | die | past | hunter | of hunter's wounds | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of wound=Causer | ||||
| 6 | dream | Brunswick | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | wound | hunter | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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