Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 60
An old, poor, but honest man left his cottage to gather sticks and healing herbs in the wood for sale in the neighbouring town.
Who acts: honest man · What happens: leave, gather, neighbour · To what, where: cottage, sticks, wood
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 (honest man), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 poor | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 poor | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 poor | punct |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 left | cc |
| 7 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | nsubj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 poor | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 gather | mark |
| 13 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 left | advcl |
| 14 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gather | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 herbs | cc |
| 16 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 herbs | compound |
| 17 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sticks | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 wood | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wood | det |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gather | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 sale | case |
| 22 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wood | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 town | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 town | det |
| 25 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 town | amod |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sale | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | honest man | monk's cottage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gather | to-infinitive | honest man not said here | sticks and healing herbs | the wood for sale in the neighbouring town | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | |||
| 3 | neighbour | gerund | 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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