Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 48
A pious hermit admonished him frequently, and entreated him not to disturb God's peace of the holy day with his tumult and noise; but the sportsman closed his ears to the warnings of the old man, and the hermit returned to his hermitage accompanied by the scornful derision of the ungodly hunter.
Who acts: pious hermit, sportsman, hermit, God · What happens: admonish, entreat, not disturb, close, return, accompany · To what, where: peace, ears, warnings, hermitage, holy day, old man
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 (pious hermit, sportsman, hermit, God), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hermit | det |
| 2 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hermit | amod |
| 3 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 admonished | nsubj |
| 4 | admonished | admonish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 admonished | obj |
| 6 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 4 admonished | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 entreated | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 entreated | cc |
| 9 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 admonished | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 entreated | obj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 disturb | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 disturb | mark |
| 13 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 entreated | advcl |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 peace | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 God | case |
| 16 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disturb | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 19 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 peace | nmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 tumult | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 tumult | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tumult | tumult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 day | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 noise | cc |
| 25 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tumult | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 closed | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 closed | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sportsman | det |
| 29 | sportsman | sportsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 closed | nsubj |
| 30 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 admonished | parataxis |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 ears | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 closed | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 warnings | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 warnings | det |
| 35 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 closed | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 man | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 man | det |
| 38 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 man | amod |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 warnings | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 returned | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 returned | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 hermit | det |
| 43 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 returned | nsubj |
| 44 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 closed | conj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 hermitage | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 hermitage | nmod:poss |
| 47 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 returned | obl |
| 48 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 hermitage | acl |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 52 derision | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 derision | det |
| 51 | scornful | scornful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 derision | amod |
| 52 | derision | derision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 accompanied | obl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 hunter | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 hunter | det |
| 55 | ungodly | ungodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 hunter | amod |
| 56 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 derision | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 admonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admonish | past | a pious hermit | peace | frequently property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | entreat | past | a pious hermit not said here | peace | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not disturb | to-infinitive | a pious hermit not said here | God's peace of the holy day with peace's tumult and noise | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus peace=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | close | past | the sportsman | peace's ears | the warnings of the old man | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ear=Patient to warning=Recipient | |||
| 5 | return | past | the hermit | to peace's hermitage result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hermitage=Result | ||||
| 6 | accompany | participle | peace's hermitage not said here | by the scornful derision of the ungodly hunter | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by derision=Destination | ||||
| 7 | pacify | God | the holy day with peace's tumult and noise | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | |||||
| 8 | warn | the old man | nom warning «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | deride | the ungodly hunter | nom derision «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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