Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 41
Every seven years the Huntsman passes over the seven mining towns of the Harz, and woe to him who calls after him.
Who acts: seven years, woe · What happens: pass, call · To what, where: woe, seven mining towns · 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 (seven years, woe), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 years | det |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 passes | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Huntsman | det |
| 5 | Huntsman | Huntsman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 passes | nsubj |
| 6 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 towns | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 towns | det |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 towns | nummod |
| 10 | mining | mining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 towns | compound |
| 11 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 passes | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Harz | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Harz | det |
| 14 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 towns | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 woe | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 woe | cc |
| 17 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passes | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 woe | nmod |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 calls | nsubj |
| 21 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 woe | acl:relcl |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 calls | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | every seven years | woe to Huntsman | the seven mining towns of the Harz | the Huntsman nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over town=Location | ||
| 2 | call | present | woe to Huntsman | after Huntsman | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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