Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 167
But when three enter together and draw lots with one another, two of them may depart laden with treasures, and only the third, upon whom the lot has fallen, must remain behind, and is torn in a thousand pieces by the demon.
Who acts: three, one, lot, demon · What happens: enter, draw, depart, lade, fall, remain · To what, where: lots, thousand pieces
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 (three, one, lot, demon), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 draw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 enter | advmod |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 enter | nsubj |
| 4 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 draw | advcl |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 enter | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 enter | cc |
| 7 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 draw | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 depart | nsubj |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 one | fixed |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 two | punct |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 one | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 two | nmod |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 depart | aux |
| 17 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 draw | conj |
| 18 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 depart | xcomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 treasures | case |
| 20 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 laden | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 third | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 third | cc |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 third | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 third | det |
| 25 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 draw | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fallen | punct |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 whom | case |
| 28 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 fallen | obl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 lot | det |
| 30 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fallen | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 fallen | aux |
| 32 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 third | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 remain | punct |
| 34 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 remain | aux |
| 35 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 32 fallen | parataxis |
| 36 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 35 remain | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 torn | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 torn | cc |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 torn | aux:pass |
| 40 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 draw | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 pieces | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 thousand | det |
| 43 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 pieces | nummod |
| 44 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 torn | obl |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 demon | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 demon | det |
| 47 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 torn | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | present | three | together property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | present | lots | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | |||||
| 3 | depart | may | one | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lade | participle | one not said here | with treasures | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fall | present · perfect | the lot | whom obl | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon whom=Location | ||||
| 6 | remain | must | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | tear | present · passive | the demon | thousand pieces | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=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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