Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 118
But if they would remain there three years without seeing the light of day, they would be released.
Who acts: Brothers · What happens: remain, see, release, light · To what, where: light, Brothers, day
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), 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 | _ | 19 released | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 remain | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 remain | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 remain | aux |
| 5 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 released | advcl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 remain | advmod |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remain | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 seeing | mark |
| 10 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 remain | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seeing | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 light | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 remain | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 released | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 released | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 released | aux:pass |
| 19 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 released | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain a condition, not said to happen | would | Brothers = brother | there | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | Brothers = brother not said here | the light of day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | release | would · passive | Brothers = brother | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | |||||
| 4 | light | day | nom light «phenomenon 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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