Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 39
Once a robber from the Thuringian Forest lived here in a cave with a wild woman; they were clothed with moss and the branches of fir-trees.
Who acts: robber · What happens: live, clothe · To what, where: cave, traditions
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 (robber), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 robber | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 robber | det |
| 3 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Forest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Forest | det |
| 6 | Thuringian | Thuringian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Forest | compound |
| 7 | Forest | Forest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 robber | nmod |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 lived | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cave | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cave | det |
| 12 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 woman | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cave | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 clothed | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 clothed | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 clothed | aux:pass |
| 20 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lived | parataxis |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 moss | case |
| 22 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clothed | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 branches | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 branches | det |
| 25 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 clothed | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 trees | case |
| 27 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 trees | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 fir | punct |
| 29 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 branches | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a robber from the Thuringian Forest | a cave with a wild woman; here | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location | ||||
| 2 | clothe | past · passive | traditions = tradition | with moss; the branches of fir trees conj | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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