Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 86
The following day they went to a jeweller, a Jew, and offered him the stone.
Who acts: help · What happens: follow, go, offer · To what, where: jeweller, stone, Bergmann
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 (help), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 jeweller | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 jeweller | det |
| 8 | jeweller | jeweller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Jew | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Jew | det |
| 11 | Jew | Jew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 jeweller | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 offered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 offered | cc |
| 14 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 offered | iobj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stone | det |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 offered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | go | past | help | a jeweller | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jeweller=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | offer | past | help not said here | the stone | Bergmann | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal stone=Theme |
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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