Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 90
It was said the owners had buried their treasure in it before their disappearance.
Who acts: meadows, treasures · What happens: say, bury, treasure, disappear · To what, where: owner, owners, scoria · 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 (meadows, treasures), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 owners | det |
| 5 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 buried | aux |
| 7 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 9 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buried | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 buried | obl |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 disappearance | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 disappearance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buried | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | owner | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bury | past · perfect · passive | the owners | scoria | before treasures's disappearance | meadows's treasure obj | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme treasure=Destination | ||
| 3 | treasure | meadows = meadow | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | disappear | treasures = treasure | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: 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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