Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 15
It might be discovered, for I have seen people prowling about here lately a good deal."
Who acts: I, people · What happens: discover, see, prowl · To what, where: gate, people
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 discovered | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 discovered | aux:pass |
| 4 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 seen | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 discovered | conj |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seen | obj |
| 11 | prowling | prowl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 people | acl |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 here | case |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 prowling | obl |
| 14 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 17 deal | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 deal | det |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 deal | amod |
| 17 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 discovered | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | might · passive | gate | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | I | people | a good deal obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | prowl | gerund | people not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about here=Trajectory |
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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