Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 13
First of all, tell me how it happened that my watchers did not discover you, nor I myself till I struck with the willow rod?"
Who acts: you, it, watchers, I · What happens: tell, happen, not discover, strike · To what, where: myself, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, it, watchers, I), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 tell | advmod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 First | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 First | punct |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 happened | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 discover | mark |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 watchers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | watchers | watcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 discover | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 discover | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 discover | advmod |
| 15 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 happened | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 discover | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 myself | punct |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 myself | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 myself | nsubj |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 tell | obl |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 struck | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 struck | nsubj |
| 23 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 rod | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rod | det |
| 26 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rod | compound |
| 27 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 struck | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | myself | me | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not discover | past · do-support | my watchers | you | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | ||||
| 4 | strike | past | I | with the willow rod | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rod=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/23/13/