Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 40

The knight Claus, founder of Clausthal, once saw this wild man on the Wildmann's Cliffs, with a fir-tree, torn up by the roots, in his hand, and a bear on his. back.

Who acts: knight · What happens: see, tear up · To what, where: wild man, Cliffs, fir tree

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 (knight), 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	2 knight	det
2	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	nsubj
3	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 knight	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 founder	punct
5	founder	founder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Claus	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Clausthal	case
7	Clausthal	Clausthal	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 founder	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 knight	punct
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 saw	advmod
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 man	det
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 Cliffs	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Wildmann	det
16	Wildmann	Wildmann	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Cliffs	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Wildmann	case
18	Cliffs	Cliff	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 man	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tree	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 tree	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tree	det
22	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tree	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 fir	punct
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 torn	punct
26	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 tree	acl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 torn	compound:prt
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 roots	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 roots	det
30	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 torn	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hand	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 hand	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hand	nmod:poss
34	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 roots	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 bear	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 bear	cc
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 bear	det
38	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obl
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 back	case
40	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 back	nsubj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 his	punct
42	back	back	ADV	_	38 bear	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the knight	this wild man		the Wildmann's Cliffs		with a fir tree; a bear obl; once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
2	tear up	participle		a fir tree not said here				by the roots and knight's hand	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by root=Trajectory

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 40