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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 137

They pursued him, the Prince at their head, found the unhappy man, deceived as well as deceiving, in a tree, and shot him dead on the spot.

Who acts: friends · What happens: pursue, find, deceive, shoot · To what, where: treasurer, unhappy man, tree, spot

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 (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

nsubjobjpunctdetoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctconjdetamodobjpunctconjadvmodfixedmarkadvclpunctcasedetobjpunctccparataxisobjxcompcasedetoblpunctrootTheyPRONpursuedVERBhimPRON,PUNCTtheDETPrincePROPNatADPtheirPRONheadNOUN,PUNCTfoundVERBtheDETunhappyADJmanNOUN,PUNCTdeceivedVERBasADVwellADVasSCONJdeceivingVERB,PUNCTinADPaDETtreeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJshotVERBhimPRONdeadADJonADPtheDETspotNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 pursuednsubj
2pursuedpursueVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 pursuedobj
4,,PUNCT_6 Princepunct
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Princedet
6PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing2 pursuedobl
7atatADP_9 headcase
8theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 headnmod:poss
9headheadNOUNNumber=Sing6 Princenmod
10,,PUNCT_11 foundpunct
11foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 pursuedconj
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 mandet
13unhappyunhappyADJDegree=Pos14 manamod
14manmanNOUNNumber=Sing11 foundobj
15,,PUNCT_16 deceivedpunct
16deceiveddeceiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 pursuedconj
17asasADVExtPos=ADV16 deceivedadvmod
18wellwellADVDegree=Pos17 asfixed
19asasSCONJ_20 deceivingmark
20deceivingdeceiveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part16 deceivedadvcl
21,,PUNCT_24 treepunct
22ininADP_24 treecase
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 treedet
24treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing20 deceivingobj
25,,PUNCT_27 shotpunct
26andandCCONJ_27 shotcc
27shotshootVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 pursuedparataxis
28himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 shotobj
29deaddeadADJDegree=Pos27 shotxcomp
30ononADP_32 spotcase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 spotdet
32spotspotNOUNNumber=Sing27 shotobl
33..PUNCT_2 pursuedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1pursuepastfriends = friendtreasurerthe Prince at friends's head oblvn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2findpastfriends = friend not said herethe unhappy manvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
3deceivepastfriends = friend not said herevn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4deceivegerundfriends = friend not said herea treevn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
5shootpasttreasurerthe spotdead propertyvn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme on spot=Destination

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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