Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 21
Then the shepherd forsook his sheep, went with the maiden to the king, who gave him the Princess to wife.
Who acts: shepherd, king · What happens: forsake, go, give · To what, where: sheep, Princess, shepherd
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 (shepherd, king), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 forsook | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shepherd | det |
| 3 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forsook | nsubj |
| 4 | forsook | forsake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 forsook | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forsook | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 maiden | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maiden | det |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 king | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 20 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 wife | mark |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Princess | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forsook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forsake | past | the shepherd | shepherd's sheep | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | the shepherd not said here | with the maiden; to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the king | the Princess wife | shepherd | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient princess=Theme |
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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