Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 114
The young hunter searched the spot carefully where the bird had vanished, and found an opening, which he marked, and then went back and called his two brothers.
Who acts: young hunter, bird, youngest · What happens: search, vanish, find, mark, go back, call · To what, where: spot, opening, two brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (young hunter, bird, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hunter | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hunter | amod |
| 3 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 searched | nsubj |
| 4 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spot | det |
| 6 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 searched | obj |
| 7 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 12 vanished | advmod |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 vanished | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vanished | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 vanished | aux |
| 12 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 spot | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 searched | parataxis |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 opening | det |
| 17 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 marked | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 marked | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 marked | nsubj |
| 21 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 opening | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 went | advmod |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 searched | parataxis |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 called | cc |
| 28 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 went | conj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 brothers | nummod |
| 31 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 called | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | the young hunter | the spot | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent spot=Location | ||||
| 2 | vanish | past · perfect | the bird | carefully property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | a opening | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opening=Topic | |||||
| 4 | mark | past | youngest = young | a opening | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Destination | ||||
| 5 | go back | past | then | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | call | past | youngest's two brothers | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient |
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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