Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 91

The first one I catch stealing, if he has only taken one ear, shall be so punished that he will forget to come again, thou mayest depend on it!"

Who acts: I, displeasure, thou · What happens: catch, steal, take, punish, forget, not come · To what, where: first one, one ear

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 (I, displeasure, thou), 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 one	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 punished	nsubj:pass
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 catch	nsubj
5	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 one	acl:relcl
6	stealing	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 catch	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 taken	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 taken	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 taken	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 taken	aux
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 taken	advmod
12	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 one	acl
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 ear	nummod
14	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taken	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 punished	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 punished	aux:pass
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 punished	advmod
19	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 forget	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 forget	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 forget	aux
23	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 punished	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 come	mark
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 forget	xcomp
26	again	again	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 depend	punct
28	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 depend	nsubj
29	mayest	may	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	30 depend	aux
30	depend	depend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 punished	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 depend	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 depend	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 depend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	I	the first one not said here			tree rules
2	steal	gerund	I not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	displeasure	one ear			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
4	punish	shall · passive		the first one			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	forget	future	displeasure				tree rules
6	not come	to-infinitive	displeasure not said here		again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	depend	may	thou			on advantage	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on it=Theme

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 91

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 91