Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 35
Through meadow and forest, over mountain and ravine, flee the pursuer and pursued, the white steed always in advance, fleeing swift as a meteor through the heavens; behind, the black steed, like a spirit from the eternal darkness.
Who acts: you · What happens: flee, pursue · To what, where: pursuer, meadow, white steed, advance, swift, heavens
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 2 meadow | case |
| 2 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flee | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 forest | cc |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meadow | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mountain | punct |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 mountain | case |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meadow | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ravine | cc |
| 9 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mountain | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 meadow | punct |
| 11 | flee | flee | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pursuer | det |
| 13 | pursuer | pursuer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flee | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pursued | cc |
| 15 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 flee | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 steed | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 steed | det |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 steed | amod |
| 19 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pursued | obj |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 advance | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 advance | case |
| 22 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pursued | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fleeing | punct |
| 24 | fleeing | flee | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 pursued | advcl |
| 25 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fleeing | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 meteor | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 meteor | det |
| 28 | meteor | meteor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fleeing | obl |
| 29 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 heavens | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 heavens | det |
| 31 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fleeing | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 steed | punct |
| 33 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 37 steed | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 behind | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 steed | det |
| 36 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 steed | amod |
| 37 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flee | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 spirit | punct |
| 39 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 spirit | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 spirit | det |
| 41 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 steed | appos |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 darkness | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 darkness | det |
| 44 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 darkness | amod |
| 45 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 spirit | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 flee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | imperative | you not said here | the pursuer | meadow and forest and mountain and ravine | the black steed obl | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pursuer=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | pursue | past | you not said here | the white steed | advance | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent steed=Theme in advance=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | flee | gerund | you not said here | swift | the heavens | as a meteor | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme swift=Initial_Location |
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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