Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 95
On the way to the spot he commanded his men: "Let no one speak while digging, or all is lost."
Who acts: spot · What happens: command, let, dig, lose · To what, where: men, way, one speak, all · 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 (spot), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 commanded | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 spot | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spot | det |
| 6 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 way | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 commanded | nsubj |
| 8 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 men | nmod:poss |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 commanded | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Let | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Let | punct |
| 13 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 commanded | ccomp |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 speak | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 speak | compound |
| 16 | speak | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Let | obj |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 digging | mark |
| 18 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 Let | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lost | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 lost | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 lost | aux:pass |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Let | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Let | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | spot | spot's men | the way to the spot | tree rules | |||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | spot not said here | no one speak | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speak=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dig in a quote | gerund | spot not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lose in a quote | present · passive | all | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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