Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 112
They went together one day hunting to the Schalk, when the youngest saw three partridges, and shot at one of them.
Who acts: Brothers, youngest · What happens: go together, hunt, see, shoot · To what, where: three partridges
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brothers, youngest), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Schalk | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Schalk | det |
| 9 | Schalk | schalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hunting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 saw | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 youngest | det |
| 13 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 partridges | nummod |
| 16 | partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shot | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shot | cc |
| 19 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saw | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 shot | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go together | past | Brothers = brother | day | together property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | Brothers = brother not said here | to the Schalk | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the youngest | three partridges | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer partridge=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | shoot | past | the youngest not said here | at one of Brothers | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at one=Destination |
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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