Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 57
Several years passed away; but every St. John's Day the forester saw and spoke with the same three strangers.
Who acts: Several years, Day · What happens: pass away, see, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Several years, Day), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 years | amod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 John | det |
| 8 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 John | nmod:desc |
| 9 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Day | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 John | case |
| 11 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forester | det |
| 13 | forester | forester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Day | appos |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spoke | cc |
| 16 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saw | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 strangers | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 strangers | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 strangers | amod |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 strangers | nummod |
| 21 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 spoke | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | past | Several years | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | past | every John St.'s Day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | every John St.'s Day not said here | with the same three strangers | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with stranger=Co-Agent |
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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