Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 19
Before his death he expressed a wish that he might hunt for ever, and his rash desire was granted.
Who acts: boar · What happens: express, hunt, grant, die, desire · To what, where: wish, rash desire
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 (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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 death | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 death | nmod:poss |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expressed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 expressed | nsubj |
| 5 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wish | det |
| 7 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expressed | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 hunt | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hunt | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hunt | aux |
| 11 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 expressed | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 ever | case |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 hunt | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 granted | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 granted | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 desire | nmod:poss |
| 17 | rash | rash | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 desire | amod |
| 18 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 granted | aux:pass |
| 20 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 expressed | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | express | past | boar | a wish | before boar's death | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | |||
| 2 | hunt | might | boar | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for ever=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grant | past · passive | boar's rash desire | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | die | boar | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | desire | boar | nom desire «feeling 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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