Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 100
Four of his attendants lifted the Earl into the saddle, and he rode through the village.
Who acts: attendants, Three · What happens: lift, ride · To what, where: Four, saddle, village
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants, Three), 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 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 lifted | obl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 attendants | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 4 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lifted | nsubj |
| 5 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Earl | det |
| 7 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 saddle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 saddle | det |
| 10 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rode | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rode | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rode | nsubj |
| 14 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifted | conj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 village | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 village | det |
| 17 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rode | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | Three's attendants | Four | the saddle | the Earl obj | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent earl=Theme into saddle=Destination | ||
| 2 | ride | past | Three | the village | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through village=Trajectory |
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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