Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 110
If ye would discover the thieves who rob your fields, go out at midnight and strike about in the air with a willow rod, and ye will soon see the cunning rascals.
Who acts: ye, thieves, you · What happens: discover, rob, go out, strike, see · To what, where: thieves, fields, air, cunning rascals
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 (ye, thieves, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 discover | mark |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 discover | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 discover | aux |
| 4 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thieves | det |
| 6 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 discover | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 rob | nsubj |
| 8 | rob | rob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thieves | acl:relcl |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fields | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rob | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 discover | punct |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 midnight | case |
| 15 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 strike | cc |
| 17 | strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 strike | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 air | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 air | det |
| 21 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strike | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 rod | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 rod | det |
| 24 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rod | compound |
| 25 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strike | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 see | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 see | cc |
| 28 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 see | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | aux |
| 30 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 see | advmod |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 rascals | det |
| 33 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 rascals | amod |
| 34 | rascals | rascal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 see | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover a condition, not said to happen | would | ye | the thieves | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Topic | ||||
| 2 | rob | present | the thieves | your fields | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Source | ||||
| 3 | go out | imperative | you not said here | midnight | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | strike | present | you not said here | the air | with a willow rod; about property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | |||
| 5 | see | future | ye | the cunning rascals | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rascal=Stimulus |
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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