Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 46
Hunting was his pleasure and passion, and daily he ranged, with his men, the wood, which resounded with the barking of dogs and the notes of the horn, which filled the clefts and caves of the rocks and mountains with a thousand-voiced echo.
Who acts: Hunting, St., wood, horn · What happens: be, range, resound, fill, voice, note · To what, where: pleasure, men, clefts, horn
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 (Hunting, St., wood, horn), 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 | Hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleasure | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleasure | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 passion | cc |
| 6 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleasure | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ranged | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ranged | cc |
| 9 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 11 ranged | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ranged | nsubj |
| 11 | ranged | range | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleasure | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 men | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 men | nmod:poss |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ranged | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wood | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wood | det |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 men | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 resounded | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 resounded | nsubj |
| 21 | resounded | resound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wood | acl:relcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 barking | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 barking | det |
| 24 | barking | barking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 resounded | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 dogs | case |
| 26 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 barking | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 notes | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 notes | det |
| 29 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 dogs | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 horn | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 horn | det |
| 32 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 notes | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 filled | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 filled | nsubj |
| 35 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 horn | acl:relcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 clefts | det |
| 37 | clefts | cleft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 filled | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 caves | cc |
| 39 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 clefts | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 rocks | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 rocks | det |
| 42 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 clefts | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 mountains | cc |
| 44 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 rocks | conj |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 echo | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 echo | det |
| 47 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 voiced | compound |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 thousand | punct |
| 49 | voiced | voice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 echo | amod |
| 50 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 filled | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleasure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Hunting | St.'s pleasure and passion | St. nmod:poss; passion conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | range | past | St. | St.'s men and the wood | daily property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | |||
| 3 | resound | past | the wood | with the barking of dogs and the notes of the horn | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with barking=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fill | past | the horn | the clefts of the rocks and mountains and caves | with a voiced echo | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cleft=Patient with echo=Instrument | |||
| 5 | voice speech: other | participle | thousand compound | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | note | the horn | nom note «communication transitive»: of=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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