Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 10
At the proposal of the eldest, they took as much of the gold as they could carry with them.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: take, carry · To what, where: much, proposal
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 proposal | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 proposal | det |
| 3 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 eldest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eldest | det |
| 6 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 proposal | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 proposal | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gold | det |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 much | nmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 carry | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carry | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 carry | aux |
| 18 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 much | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carry | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | brothers = brother | much of the gold | the proposal of the eldest | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent much=Theme at proposal=Asset | |||
| 2 | carry | could | brothers = brother | with entreaties = entreaty | vn carry-11.4 «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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