Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 49
I don't see them by the flock, and still the faithful creatures have never yet left their post without our commands.
Who acts: I, our · What happens: not see, leave, command · To what, where: sons, faithful creatures · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, our), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 flock | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flock | det |
| 8 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 left | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 left | cc |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 left | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 creatures | det |
| 13 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 creatures | amod |
| 14 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 left | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 left | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 yet | advmod |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 left | advmod |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 see | parataxis |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 post | nmod:poss |
| 20 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obj |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 commands | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 commands | nmod:poss |
| 23 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 left | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | present · do-support | I | sons = son | by the flock | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | leave | present · perfect · passive | the faithful creatures | still; yet; never | without our commands; sons's post obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme post=Attribute | |||
| 3 | command | our | nom command «communication transitive»: 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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