Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 37
Two shepherds in Quedlinburg, father and son, poor but honest people, were once watching their flocks on the green meadows.
Who acts: Two shepherds · What happens: watch · To what, where: flocks, green meadows
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two shepherds), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 shepherds | nummod |
| 2 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 watching | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Quedlinburg | case |
| 4 | Quedlinburg | Quedlinburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shepherds | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 father | punct |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shepherds | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 son | cc |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 father | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 poor | punct |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 father | appos |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 people | cc |
| 12 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 poor | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 shepherds | punct |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 watching | aux |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 watching | advmod |
| 17 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 flocks | nmod:poss |
| 19 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 watching | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 meadows | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 meadows | det |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 meadows | amod |
| 23 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 watching | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 watching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · progressive | Two shepherds in Quedlinburg and father and son | Shepherds's flocks | the green meadows | once property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=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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