Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 61

He soon had a huge bundle of sticks bound together for his weary, bent back--bent from the burden of toil and of years--and a luxuriance of the healing woodroofs made gathering them a light task; but when he reached the town everybody said, "What's the need of wood now, when it is summer?"

Who acts: monk, luxuriance, everybody · What happens: have, bind, bend back, bend, make, gather · To what, where: huge bundle, sticks, burden, town, need, summer · 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, luxuriance, everybody), 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	3 had	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bundle	det
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bundle	amod
6	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 sticks	case
8	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bundle	nmod
9	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sticks	acl
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 bound	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 weary	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 weary	nmod:poss
13	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bound	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bent	punct
15	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 weary	conj
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 bent	advmod
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 bent	punct
18	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 bent	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 burden	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 burden	det
21	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bent	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 toil	case
23	toil	toil	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 burden	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 years	cc
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 years	case
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 burden	conj
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 made	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 made	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 luxuriance	det
30	luxuriance	luxuriance	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 made	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 woodroofs	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 woodroofs	det
33	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 woodroofs	compound
34	woodroofs	woodroof	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 luxuriance	nmod
35	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
36	gathering	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 made	xcomp
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 gathering	obj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 task	det
39	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 task	compound
40	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gathering	obj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 said	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 said	cc
43	when	when	SCONJ	_	45 reached	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 reached	nsubj
45	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 said	advcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 town	det
47	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 reached	obj
48	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	49 said	nsubj
49	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 need	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 need	punct
52	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	55 need	nsubj
53	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 need	cop
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 need	det
55	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 said	ccomp
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 wood	case
57	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 need	nmod
58	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	55 need	advmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 summer	punct
60	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	63 summer	advmod
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 summer	nsubj
62	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 summer	cop
63	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 need	parataxis
64	?	?	PUNCT	_	63 summer	punct
65	"	"	PUNCT	_	63 summer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	monk	a huge bundle of sticks			soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Patient
2	bind	participle		sticks not said here			for monk's weary; together property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	bend back	participle						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bend	participle			the burden of toil and years			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from burden=Location
5	make	past	a luxuriance of the healing woodroofs					tree rules
6	gather	gerund	a luxuriance of the healing woodroofs not said here	sticks = stick			a light task obj	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary task=Theme
7	reach	past	monk	the town				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme
8	say speech: ask	past	everybody					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	is a in a quote	present		the need		now	of wood; What nsubj	tree rules
10	is a in a quote	present	luxuriance	summer				tree rules
11	burden			toil				nom burden «cognition 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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 61