Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 11
They reached Zellerfield with their wealth, agreed to keep all a secret, and began to live in luxury, each taking to himself a wife.
Who acts: brothers, each · What happens: reach, agree, keep, begin, live, take · To what, where: Zellerfield, secret, luxury, wife
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, each), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Zellerfield | Zellerfield | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 wealth | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 agreed | punct |
| 8 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 reached | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 keep | mark |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 agreed | xcomp |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 secret | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 secret | det |
| 13 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 live | mark |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 luxury | case |
| 20 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 live | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 taking | punct |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 taking | nsubj |
| 23 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 began | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 himself | case |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 taking | obl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 wife | det |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taking | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | brothers = brother | Zellerfield | with brothers's wealth | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent zellerfield=Theme | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | participle | brothers = brother not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | all secret | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | live | to-infinitive | luxury | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in luxury=Location | |||||
| 6 | take | gerund | each | a wife | Zellerfield | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Theme to himself=Destination |
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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