Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 32
Under the pretext that something had been omitted, the stranger shuffled again; but, to his terror, the death-lot fell, not upon Schlosser, but his own friend.
Who acts: pretext, stranger, death lot · What happens: omit, shuffle, fall · To what, where: something, pretext, own friend, Schlosser
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 (pretext, stranger, death 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 pretext | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pretext | det |
| 3 | pretext | pretext | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shuffled | obl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 omitted | mark |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 omitted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 omitted | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 omitted | aux:pass |
| 8 | omitted | omit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pretext | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pretext | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stranger | det |
| 11 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shuffled | nsubj |
| 12 | shuffled | shuffle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 shuffled | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 fell | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 fell | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 but | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 terror | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 terror | nmod:poss |
| 19 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fell | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 terror | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lot | det |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lot | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 death | punct |
| 24 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fell | nsubj |
| 25 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shuffled | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Schlosser | punct |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 Schlosser | advmod |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 Schlosser | case |
| 29 | Schlosser | Schlosser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 fell | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 friend | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 friend | cc |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 friend | nmod:poss |
| 33 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 friend | amod |
| 34 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fell | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 shuffled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | omit | past · perfect · passive | the pretext not said here | something | vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shuffle | past | the stranger | the pretext | again | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under pretext=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | fall | past | the death lot | stranger's own friend | Schlosser | to stranger's terror | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon schlosser=Location |
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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