Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 139
It was at Whitsuntide of the year 1292, as tradition tells us, that the town council of the free, imperial Möhlhausen issued a proclamation, that whoever could discover and conduct a spring into the upper town, which suffered much from fires through want of water, should be richly rewarded; and in case he had committed a crime, he should be pardoned.
Who acts: command, tradition, town council, whoever, upper town, council · What happens: be, tell, issue, discover, conduct, suffer · To what, where: Whitsuntide, us, proclamation, upper town, fires, crime · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (command, tradition, town council, whoever), 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 | 4 Whitsuntide | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Whitsuntide | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Whitsuntide | case |
| 4 | Whitsuntide | Whitsuntide | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Whitsuntide | nmod |
| 8 | 1292 | 1292 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 year | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tells | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 tells | mark |
| 11 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tells | nsubj |
| 12 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Whitsuntide | acl:relcl |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tells | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 issued | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 issued | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 council | det |
| 17 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 council | compound |
| 18 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 issued | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Möhlhausen | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Möhlhausen | det |
| 21 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Möhlhausen | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 free | punct |
| 23 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Möhlhausen | amod |
| 24 | Möhlhausen | Möhlhausen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 council | nmod |
| 25 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tells | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 proclamation | det |
| 27 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 issued | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 discover | punct |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 discover | mark |
| 30 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 discover | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 discover | aux |
| 32 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 issued | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 conduct | cc |
| 34 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 discover | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 spring | det |
| 36 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 conduct | obj |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 town | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 town | det |
| 39 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 town | amod |
| 40 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 conduct | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 suffered | punct |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 suffered | nsubj |
| 43 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 town | acl:relcl |
| 44 | much | much | ADV | _ | 43 suffered | advmod |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 fires | case |
| 46 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 suffered | obl |
| 47 | through | through | ADP | _ | 48 want | case |
| 48 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fires | nmod |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 water | case |
| 50 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 want | nmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 rewarded | punct |
| 52 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 rewarded | aux |
| 53 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 55 rewarded | aux:pass |
| 54 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 55 rewarded | advmod |
| 55 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 discover | conj |
| 56 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 69 pardoned | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 69 pardoned | cc |
| 58 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 62 committed | mark |
| 59 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 in | fixed |
| 60 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 committed | nsubj |
| 61 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 62 committed | aux |
| 62 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 69 pardoned | advcl |
| 63 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 64 crime | det |
| 64 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 committed | obj |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 committed | punct |
| 66 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 69 pardoned | nsubj:pass |
| 67 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 69 pardoned | aux |
| 68 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 69 pardoned | aux:pass |
| 69 | pardoned | pardon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tells | ccomp |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Whitsuntide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | command | Whitsuntide | year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | tradition | Whitsuntide not said here | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | issue | past | the town council of the free imperial Möhlhausen | a proclamation | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location proclamation=Theme | ||||
| 4 | discover | could | whoever | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | conduct | infinitive | whoever not said here | the upper town | spring | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into town=Destination | |||
| 6 | suffer | past | the upper town | fires through want of water | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | reward | should · passive | whoever not said here | richly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient» | ||||
| 8 | commit | past · perfect | council | a crime | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Theme | ||||
| 9 | pardon | should · passive | council | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 10 | want | water | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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