Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 69
After the departure of the enemy he hastened to the cave to take home the animal, but it had grown so much it could no longer go through the entrance, and he was compelled to kill it.
Who acts: farmer, animal, enemy · What happens: hasten, take, grow, go, compel, kill · To what, where: cave, animal, entrance, farmer
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 (farmer, animal, enemy), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 departure | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 departure | det |
| 3 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hastened | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 enemy | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 enemy | det |
| 6 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 departure | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hastened | nsubj |
| 8 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 cave | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cave | det |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hastened | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hastened | advcl |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 take | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 animal | det |
| 16 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grown | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 grown | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 grown | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 grown | aux |
| 21 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 hastened | parataxis |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 much | advmod |
| 23 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 grown | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 go | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | aux |
| 26 | no | no | ADV | _ | 27 longer | advmod |
| 27 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 go | advmod |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 grown | conj |
| 29 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 entrance | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 entrance | det |
| 31 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 compelled | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 compelled | cc |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 compelled | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 compelled | aux:pass |
| 36 | compelled | compel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hastened | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 kill | mark |
| 38 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 compelled | xcomp |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 kill | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | farmer | the cave | after the departure of the enemy | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cave=Destination | |||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | farmer not said here | the animal | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument animal=Destination | |||
| 3 | grow | past · perfect | animal | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | could | animal | the entrance | long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through entrance=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | compel | past · passive | farmer | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 6 | kill | to-infinitive | animal | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 7 | depart | the enemy | nom departure «act intransitive»: of=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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