Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 4
He toiled unweariedly, dug the soil, felled the trees one after the other, till of the sacred grove only three trees were left standing.
Who acts: warrior, sacred grove, three trees · What happens: toil, dig, fell, leave, stand · To what, where: soil, trees, three trees
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 (warrior, sacred grove, three trees), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 toiled | nsubj |
| 2 | toiled | toil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | unweariedly | unweariedly | ADV | _ | 2 toiled | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dug | punct |
| 5 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 toiled | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 soil | det |
| 7 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dug | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 felled | punct |
| 9 | felled | fell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dug | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trees | det |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 felled | obj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 felled | obj |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 other | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 other | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grove | punct |
| 17 | till | till | ADP | _ | 21 grove | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 grove | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 grove | det |
| 20 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 grove | amod |
| 21 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felled | obl |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 three | advmod |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 trees | nummod |
| 24 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 left | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 left | aux:pass |
| 26 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 grove | acl:relcl |
| 27 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 left | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 toiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toil | past | warrior | unweariedly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dig | past | warrior not said here | the soil | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent soil=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fell | past | warrior not said here | the trees | till the sacred grove | one obj | tree rules | ||
| 4 | leave | past · passive | the sacred grove not said here | three trees | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand | gerund | three trees not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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