Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 63
And where the stumbling of thy horse once brought thee death, there shall thy ride end, there shalt thou stumble every night."
Who acts: stumbling, ride end · What happens: bring, stumble · To what, where: thee
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 (stumbling, ride end), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stumble | cc |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 brought | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stumbling | det |
| 4 | stumbling | stumbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stumbling | nmod |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 brought | advmod |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stumble | advcl |
| 10 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 brought | obj |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 stumble | expl |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 stumble | aux |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 end | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 end | compound |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stumble | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stumble | punct |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 stumble | expl |
| 20 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 22 stumble | aux |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 stumble | nsubj |
| 22 | stumble | stumble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 night | det |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stumble | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 stumble | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 stumble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the stumbling of thy horse | thee | death obj; once property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thou=Destination death=Theme | |||
| 2 | stumble | shall | thy ride end | there; there | night | thou nsubj | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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