Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 53
The hunted stag groaned, and escaped his pursuers with his last strength.
Who acts: hunted stag · What happens: hunt, groan, escape · To what, where: pursuers
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 (hunted stag), 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 | 3 stag | det |
| 2 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stag | amod |
| 3 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 groaned | nsubj |
| 4 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 escaped | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 escaped | cc |
| 7 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 groaned | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pursuers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | pursuers | pursuer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 escaped | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 strength | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 strength | nmod:poss |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 strength | amod |
| 13 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 escaped | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | participle | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | groan | past | the hunted stag | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | escape | past | the hunted stag not said here | stag's pursuers | with stag's last strength | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pursuer=Initial_Location |
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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