Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 72
Everybody loved her, and often, when the robbers had marched out to plunder, she would visit the poor and the sick, and even the robbed, giving them food and the money she had saved.
Who acts: Everybody, Jutta · What happens: love, march out, plunder, visit, rob, give · To what, where: Jutta, robbers, poor, food, money
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 (Everybody, Jutta), 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 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loved | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 marched | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 marched | cc |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 marched | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 marched | punct |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 marched | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 robbers | det |
| 10 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 marched | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 marched | aux |
| 12 | marched | march | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 loved | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 marched | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 plunder | mark |
| 15 | plunder | plunder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 marched | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 visit | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 visit | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 visit | aux |
| 19 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 loved | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 poor | det |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 visit | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sick | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sick | det |
| 24 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 poor | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 robbed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 robbed | cc |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 29 robbed | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 robbed | det |
| 29 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 visit | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 giving | punct |
| 31 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 visit | advcl |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 giving | iobj |
| 33 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 giving | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 money | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 money | det |
| 36 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 food | conj |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 saved | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 saved | aux |
| 39 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 money | acl:relcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Everybody | Jutta | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | march out | past · perfect · passive | the robbers | often property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | plunder | to-infinitive | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | visit | would | Jutta | the poor | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | rob | participle | Jutta not said here | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | give | gerund | Jutta not said here | food and the money | robbers = robber | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient food=Theme | |||
| 7 | save | past · perfect | Jutta | the money not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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