Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 90
Dancing and singing they follow the fleeing bride, who strives to keep her treasure as long as possible, hides behind hedges and underbrush, till at last they rob her of her wreath and carry it in triumph to the bridegroom.
Who acts: friends, fleeing bride, bride · What happens: dance, sing, follow, flee, strive, keep · To what, where: fleeing bride, treasure, hedges, bride, last, 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 (friends, fleeing bride, bride), 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 | Dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 follow | advcl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 singing | cc |
| 3 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Dancing | conj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 follow | nsubj |
| 5 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bride | det |
| 7 | fleeing | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 bride | amod |
| 8 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 follow | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 strives | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 strives | nsubj |
| 11 | strives | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bride | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 keep | mark |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 strives | xcomp |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 15 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 keep | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 possible | mark |
| 19 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 long | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hides | punct |
| 21 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 strives | conj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 hedges | case |
| 23 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hides | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 underbrush | cc |
| 25 | underbrush | underbrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hedges | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 rob | punct |
| 27 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 31 rob | mark |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 last | case |
| 29 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 rob | obl |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 rob | nsubj |
| 31 | rob | rob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 follow | conj |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 rob | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 wreath | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wreath | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rob | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 carry | cc |
| 37 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 follow | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 carry | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 triumph | case |
| 40 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 carry | obl |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 bridegroom | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 bridegroom | det |
| 43 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 carry | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | gerund | friends = friend not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | friends = friend not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | follow | present | friends = friend | the fleeing bride | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | ||||
| 4 | flee | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | strive | present | the fleeing bride | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | keep | to-infinitive | the fleeing bride not said here | bride's treasure | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | |||
| 7 | hide | present | the fleeing bride not said here | hedges and underbrush | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind hedge=Location | ||||
| 8 | rob | present | friends = friend | bride | last | of bride's wreath | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme of wreath=Source | ||
| 9 | carry | infinitive | friends = friend not said here | wreath | the bridegroom | triumph | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to bridegroom=Destination | ||
| 10 | treasure | bride | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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