Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 40

According to some authorities, he may only rest Christmas night, and then only when he finds a plough in the field; only on that may he sit down.

Who acts: wanderer · What happens: accord, rest, find, sit down · To what, where: plough, field, that

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 (wanderer), 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 authorities	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 authorities	det
4	authorities	authority	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rest	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 authorities	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rest	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 rest	aux
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 rest	advmod
9	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 night	compound
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rest	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 finds	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 finds	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 finds	advmod
15	only	only	ADV	_	18 finds	advmod
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 finds	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 finds	nsubj
18	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rest	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 plough	det
20	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 finds	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 field	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 field	det
23	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 finds	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 sit	punct
25	only	only	ADV	_	30 sit	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 that	case
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 sit	obl
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 sit	aux
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sit	nsubj
30	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 rest	conj
31	down	down	ADP	_	30 sit	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 rest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	rest	may	wanderer			night	accord some authorities	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	present	wanderer	a plough	the field	then		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plough=Topic
4	sit down	may	wanderer		that			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on that=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 12, sentence 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 40