Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 53
I see them running as fast as possible toward the wood; they scent game, no doubt, and are on the track."
Who acts: I, sons · What happens: see, run, game, be · To what, where: sons, wood, track
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, sons), 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 | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 see | obj |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 see | xcomp |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 fast | advmod |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 running | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 possible | mark |
| 8 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fast | advcl |
| 9 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 running | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 game | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 game | nsubj |
| 14 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 game | compound |
| 15 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 doubt | punct |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 doubt | det |
| 18 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 game | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 track | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 track | cc |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 track | cop |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 track | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 track | det |
| 24 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | sons = son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | sons = son not said here | the wood | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward wood=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | game | sons = son | no doubt appos | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the track | tree rules |
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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