Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 58

He visits the ruins, probably nightly, but can only be seen every seven years by those who were born on St. John's Eve. His duty is to chastise idle and deceitful servants.

Who acts: monk, seven years · What happens: visit, see, bear, be · To what, where: ruins, duty, Eve. · 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 (monk, seven years), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 visits	nsubj
2	visits	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ruins	det
4	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 visits	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nightly	punct
6	probably	probably	ADV	_	7 nightly	advmod
7	nightly	nightly	ADV	_	2 visits	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seen	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 seen	cc
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 seen	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 seen	aux:pass
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 visits	conj
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 years	det
15	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 chastise	nsubj
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 those	case
18	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 years	nmod
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 born	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 born	aux:pass
21	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 those	acl:relcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	26 Eve.	case
23	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 John	nmod:desc
24	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Eve.	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 John	case
26	Eve.	Eve.	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 born	obl
27	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 duty	nmod:poss
28	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 born	obj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 chastise	cop
30	to	to	PART	_	31 chastise	mark
31	chastise	chastise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seen	ccomp
32	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 servants	amod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 deceitful	cc
34	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 idle	conj
35	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 chastise	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 visits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	visit	present	monk	the ruins		nightly property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruin=Co-Agent
2	see	can · passive	monk not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Stimulus
3	bear	past · passive		monk's duty	John St.'s Eve.	who nsubj:pass	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary duty=Patient
4	is	present	every seven years by those			idle servants obj; chastise property	tree rules

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 58