Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 136
Command was given to arrest the treasurer, but a friend had given him warning, and he had fled.
Who acts: friend, treasurer · What happens: give, arrest, flee · To what, where: Command, treasurer, warning
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, treasurer), 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 | Command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 arrest | mark |
| 5 | arrest | arrest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 given | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 treasurer | det |
| 7 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrest | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 given | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 given | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 friend | det |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 given | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 given | iobj |
| 15 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fled | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fled | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fled | aux |
| 20 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 given | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | Command | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | arrest | to-infinitive | the treasurer | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasurer=Patient | |||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect | a friend | warning | treasurer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient warning=Theme | |||
| 4 | flee | past · perfect | treasurer | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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