Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 43
As a punishment, he is doomed to wander for ever, and eat only horse-flesh.
What happens: doom, wander, eat · To what, where: Huntsman, horse flesh
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: 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 punishment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 punishment | det |
| 3 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doomed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 punishment | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 doomed | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 doomed | aux:pass |
| 7 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wander | mark |
| 9 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 doomed | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 ever | case |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 wander | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 eat | cc |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 doomed | conj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 flesh | advmod |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flesh | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 horse | punct |
| 18 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eat | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 doomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doom | present · passive | Huntsman | as a punishment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wander | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | eat | present | horse flesh | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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