Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 12
The two elder brothers soon squandered all, but the youngest avoided their extravagance.
Who acts: two elder brothers, youngest · What happens: squander, avoid · To what, where: all, extravagance
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 (two elder brothers, youngest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brothers | amod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 squandered | nsubj |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 squandered | advmod |
| 6 | squandered | squander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 squandered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 avoided | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 avoided | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youngest | det |
| 11 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 avoided | nsubj |
| 12 | avoided | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 squandered | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 extravagance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | extravagance | extravagance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 avoided | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 squandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squander | past | the two elder brothers | all | soon property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Asset | |||
| 2 | avoid | past | the youngest | brothers's extravagance | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent extravagance=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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