Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 166

The tradition is, that whoever crosses that beam will be given over to the Evil One, who governs there, and sits, between heaps of gold and silver, by a table, with a great book before him, in which he writes the name of every person who approaches him.

Who acts: whoever, cave, person · What happens: be, cross, give over, govern, sit, write · To what, where: tradition, beam, heaps, name, cave, person

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 (whoever, cave, person), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tradition	det
2	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tradition	cop
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crosses	punct
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 crosses	mark
6	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 crosses	nsubj
7	crosses	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tradition	acl:relcl
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 beam	det
9	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crosses	obj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 given	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 given	aux:pass
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	over	over	ADV	_	12 given	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Evil	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Evil	det
16	Evil	Evil	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 governs	obl
17	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 Evil	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 governs	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 governs	nsubj
20	governs	govern	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 given	parataxis
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 governs	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sits	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sits	cc
24	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 governs	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heaps	punct
26	between	between	ADP	_	27 heaps	case
27	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sits	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 gold	case
29	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heaps	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 silver	cc
31	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gold	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 table	punct
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 table	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 table	det
35	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sits	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 book	punct
37	with	with	ADP	_	40 book	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 book	det
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 book	amod
40	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sits	obl
41	before	before	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 book	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 writes	punct
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 which	case
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 writes	obl
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 writes	nsubj
47	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sits	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 name	det
49	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 writes	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 person	case
51	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	52 person	det
52	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 name	nmod
53	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 approaches	nsubj
54	approaches	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 person	acl:relcl
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 approaches	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the tradition			tree rules
2	cross	present	whoever	that beam			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beam=Patient
3	give over	future · passive		the tradition		over property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	govern	present			there	to the Evil; who nsubj	vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	sit	present			heaps of gold and silver	by a table; with a great book before cave	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between heap=Location
6	write	present	cave	the name of every person		which obl	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme in which=Destination
7	approach	present	every person	cave			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	name			every person			nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 166

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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 166