Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 89
It was then, and is still in some Harz villages, the custom on the wedding-day of a youthful pair to lead the bride out upon a mountain or a meadow, where her friends seek to take from her the bridal wreath.
Who acts: troop, friends · What happens: be, lead out, seek, take · To what, where: Harz villages, bride, mountain, bridal wreath
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 (troop, friends), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 was | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 villages | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 villages | cc |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 villages | cop |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 villages | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 villages | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 villages | det |
| 10 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 villages | compound |
| 11 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 was | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 custom | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 custom | det |
| 14 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 villages | appos |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 17 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 day | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 wedding | punct |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 custom | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 pair | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pair | det |
| 22 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pair | amod |
| 23 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 day | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 lead | mark |
| 25 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 pair | acl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bride | det |
| 27 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lead | obj |
| 28 | out | out | ADV | _ | 25 lead | advmod |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 mountain | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 mountain | det |
| 31 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lead | obl |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 meadow | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 meadow | det |
| 34 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mountain | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 seek | punct |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 seek | advmod |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 friends | nmod:poss |
| 38 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 seek | nsubj |
| 39 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 meadow | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 take | mark |
| 41 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 seek | xcomp |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 her | case |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 take | obl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 wreath | det |
| 45 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 wreath | amod |
| 46 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 take | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | troop | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | some Harz villages | still | the custom on the wedding day of a youthful pair appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lead out | to-infinitive | the bride | a mountain or a meadow | out property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bride=Theme upon mountain=Destination | |||
| 4 | seek | present | bride's friends | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | bride's friends not said here | the bridal wreath | from bride | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme from she=Initial_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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