Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 95
Since eight days, our servants, well hidden, have watched; but no one has shown himself, and nevertheless as much has been stolen as before.
Who acts: one · What happens: hide, watch, show, steal · To what, where: servants, servant, much
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 (one), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 watched | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 servants | punct |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 servants | nmod:poss |
| 6 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 days | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hidden | punct |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 hidden | advmod |
| 9 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 servants | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 days | punct |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 watched | aux |
| 12 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 watched | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 shown | cc |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shown | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 shown | aux |
| 18 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 watched | conj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 shown | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stolen | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 stolen | cc |
| 22 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 stolen | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 stolen | aux:pass |
| 27 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 watched | conj |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 before | case |
| 29 | before | before | ADV | _ | 27 stolen | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | participle | our servants not said here | well property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | watch | present · perfect | day | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | show | present · perfect | no one | servant | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | steal | present · perfect · passive | much | before property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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