Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 168
Two men from some distant country had often entered the cave, and had always succeeded in enticing a third to accompany them, who always fell into the hands of the _Gott-sei-bei-uns_, since they so arranged it that the lot fell to him.
Who acts: Men, lot · What happens: enter, succeed, entice, accompany, fall, arrange · To what, where: Two men, third, Men, hands, cave
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 (Men, lot), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 men | nummod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 entered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 country | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 country | det |
| 5 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 country | amod |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 men | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 entered | aux |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 entered | advmod |
| 9 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cave | det |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 succeeded | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 succeeded | cc |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 succeeded | aux |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 succeeded | advmod |
| 16 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 entered | conj |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 enticing | mark |
| 18 | enticing | entice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 succeeded | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 third | det |
| 20 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enticing | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 accompany | mark |
| 22 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 enticing | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 accompany | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fell | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 27 fell | advmod |
| 27 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 succeeded | parataxis |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 hands | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hands | det |
| 30 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 fell | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 uns | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 uns | det |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 uns | punct |
| 34 | Gott | Gott | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 uns | nsubj |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Gott | punct |
| 36 | sei | sei | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Gott | appos |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 sei | punct |
| 38 | bei | bei | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 uns | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 bei | punct |
| 40 | uns | un | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 hands | nmod |
| 41 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 uns | punct |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 arranged | punct |
| 43 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 46 arranged | mark |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 arranged | nsubj |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 arranged | advmod |
| 46 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fell | conj |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 arranged | obj |
| 48 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 51 fell | mark |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 lot | det |
| 50 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 fell | nsubj |
| 51 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 arranged | advcl |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 him | case |
| 53 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 fell | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past · perfect · passive | Two men from some distant country | the cave obj; often property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | succeed | past · perfect | always property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | entice | gerund | a third | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus third=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | accompany | to-infinitive | Men = man | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | into the hands of the bei uns Gott result; who nsubj; always property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result | |||||
| 6 | arrange | past | Men = man | third | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||||
| 7 | fall | past | the lot | cave | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot |
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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