Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 37
Many wild tales are told of his bringing aid to the miners, and to the poor and distressed, and of his severity toward the wrong-doer.
What happens: tell, bring, distress · To what, where: Many wild tales · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tales | amod |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tales | amod |
| 3 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 told | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | aux:pass |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 aid | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 aid | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 aid | amod |
| 9 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 miners | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 miners | det |
| 12 | miners | miner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 aid | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 poor | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 poor | cc |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 poor | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 poor | det |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 told | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 distressed | cc |
| 19 | distressed | distress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 poor | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 severity | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 severity | cc |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 severity | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 severity | nmod:poss |
| 24 | severity | severity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 poor | conj |
| 25 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 29 doer | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 doer | det |
| 27 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 doer | amod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 wrong | punct |
| 29 | doer | doer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 severity | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | Many wild tales | of Rehberg's bringing aid to the miners | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | bring | gerund | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | distress | past | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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