Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 81
Thy ancestors have dwelt here for ages, happy and contented, and now ye would forsake the tower that has sheltered thy race so long.
Who acts: ancestors, ye, thy · What happens: dwell, content, forsake, shelter, race · To what, where: tower
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 (ancestors, ye, thy), 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 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dwelt | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dwelt | aux |
| 4 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 dwelt | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 ages | case |
| 7 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dwelt | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 happy | punct |
| 9 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ages | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 contented | cc |
| 11 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 happy | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 forsake | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 forsake | cc |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 forsake | advmod |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 forsake | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 forsake | aux |
| 17 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dwelt | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tower | det |
| 19 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 forsake | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 sheltered | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sheltered | aux |
| 22 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 tower | acl:relcl |
| 23 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 race | nmod:poss |
| 24 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sheltered | obj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 long | advmod |
| 26 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 sheltered | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | present · perfect | Thy ancestors | here | for ages | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | content | participle | Thy ancestors not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | forsake | would | ye | the tower | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | shelter | present · perfect · passive | the tower | thy race obj; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | race | thy | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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