Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 59
"Wilt thou remain here, father, and watch that no wolf come out of the wood and scatter the flock?" said the son, and hurried on in the direction the dogs had taken.
Who acts: thou, wolf, son, direction · What happens: remain, watch, come out, scatter, say, hurry on · To what, where: father, flock, direction, dogs · 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 (thou, wolf, son, direction), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 remain | punct |
| 2 | Wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 remain | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 remain | nsubj |
| 4 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 remain | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 father | punct |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remain | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 watch | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 watch | cc |
| 10 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 remain | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 wolf | det |
| 13 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | nsubj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 watch | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wood | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wood | det |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 scatter | cc |
| 20 | scatter | scatter | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 watch | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 flock | det |
| 22 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 scatter | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 remain | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 remain | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 son | det |
| 27 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hurried | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hurried | cc |
| 30 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 said | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 hurried | compound:prt |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 direction | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 direction | det |
| 34 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hurried | obl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 dogs | det |
| 36 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 taken | aux |
| 38 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 direction | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain in a quote | future | thou | father | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | watch in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | come out in a quote | present | no wolf | of the wood; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | scatter in a quote | infinitive | the flock | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flock=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: ask | past | the son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | hurry on | participle | the son not said here | the direction | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | take | past · perfect · passive | the direction not said here | the dogs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
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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