Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 47
Not even the peace of the Sabbath could check the delight of the huntsman in the chase, or restrain him from his continued persecution of the animals of the woods.
Who acts: peace, huntsman · What happens: check, restrain, continue, pacify, delight, persecute · To what, where: delight, chase, peace, continued persecution, Sabbath, animals
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 (peace, huntsman), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 peace | advmod |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 peace | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 peace | det |
| 4 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 check | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Sabbath | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sabbath | det |
| 7 | Sabbath | Sabbath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 peace | nmod |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 check | aux |
| 9 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 delight | det |
| 11 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 check | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 huntsman | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 huntsman | det |
| 14 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 delight | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 chase | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chase | det |
| 17 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 check | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 restrain | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 restrain | cc |
| 20 | restrain | restrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 check | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 restrain | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 persecution | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 persecution | nmod:poss |
| 24 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 persecution | amod |
| 25 | persecution | persecution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 restrain | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 animals | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 animals | det |
| 28 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 persecution | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 woods | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 woods | det |
| 31 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 animals | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 check | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | could | the peace of the Sabbath | the delight of the huntsman | the chase | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Theme | |||
| 2 | restrain | infinitive | the peace of the Sabbath not said here | peace | peace's continued persecution of the animals of the woods | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP PP.eventuality»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary from persecution=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | continue | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | pacify | the Sabbath | nom peace «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | delight | the huntsman | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | persecute | peace | the animals of the woods | nom persecution «act transitive»: poss=agent 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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