Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 19
Romar, a blooming youth of this race, was once hunting in the neighbouring forest for deer or wild boar.
Who acts: Romar · What happens: bloom, hunt, neighbour · To what, where: neighbouring forest
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Romar), 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 | Romar | Romar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hunting | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 youth | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 youth | det |
| 4 | blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 youth | amod |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Romar | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 race | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 race | det |
| 8 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 youth | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Romar | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hunting | aux |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 hunting | advmod |
| 12 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 15 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 forest | amod |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hunting | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 deer | case |
| 18 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hunting | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 boar | cc |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 boar | amod |
| 21 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deer | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hunting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hunt | past · progressive | Romar | the neighbouring forest | for deer or wild boar; once property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location for deer=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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