Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 21
At midnight, when in storm and rain, Hackelberg with horse and dogs tears through the Thuringian Forest, the Harz, and the Hackel Forest, the night or death owl flies before him, which the people call the Tut-Osel.
Who acts: Hackel Forest, people · What happens: tear, fly, call · To what, where: storm · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hackel Forest, people), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 midnight | case |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 flies | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 midnight | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 tears | mark |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 storm | case |
| 6 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tears | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rain | cc |
| 8 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 storm | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Hackelberg | punct |
| 10 | Hackelberg | Hackelberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 storm | appos |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 horse | case |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Hackelberg | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dogs | cc |
| 14 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 storm | conj |
| 15 | tears | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 flies | advcl |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 Forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Forest | det |
| 18 | Thuringian | Thuringian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Forest | compound |
| 19 | Forest | Forest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tears | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Harz | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Harz | det |
| 22 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Forest | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 flies | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 flies | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Forest | det |
| 26 | Hackel | Hackel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Forest | compound |
| 27 | Forest | Forest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 flies | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 night | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 night | det |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Forest | appos |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 owl | cc |
| 32 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 owl | compound |
| 33 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 night | conj |
| 34 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | before | before | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 flies | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 call | punct |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 call | obj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 people | det |
| 40 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 call | nsubj |
| 41 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 flies | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Osel | det |
| 43 | Tut | Tut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Osel | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 Tut | punct |
| 45 | Osel | Osel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 call | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | present | the Hackel Forest not said here | storm and rain and dogs | through the Thuringian Forest | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in storm=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fly | present | the Hackel Forest | before boar; midnight | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 3 | call | present | the people | which obj; the Tut Osel xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |
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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