Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 26

Is it not the eighteenth time that we have been here, and we have always known how to turn and shuffle that the lot fell on the accompanying third person?

Who acts: other, that, we, lot · What happens: not be, be, know, turn, shuffle, fall · To what, where: eighteenth time · 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 (other, that, we, 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 time	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 time	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 time	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	eighteenth	eighteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 here	nsubj
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 here	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 here	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 here	cop
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 time	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 known	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 known	cc
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 known	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 known	aux
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 known	advmod
17	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 time	parataxis
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 turn	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 turn	mark
20	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 known	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shuffle	cc
22	shuffle	shuffle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 turn	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 fell	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lot	det
25	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fell	nsubj
26	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 shuffle	advcl
27	on	on	ADP	_	31 person	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 person	det
29	accompanying	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 person	amod
30	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 person	amod
31	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fell	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	other	the eighteenth time		tree rules
2	is	present · perfect	that		we nsubj; here property	tree rules
3	know	present · perfect	we		always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	turn	to-infinitive				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	shuffle	infinitive				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fall	past	the lot		on the accompanying third person	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on person=Location
7	accompany	gerund				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 26