Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 49
He protected the forests, and played serious jokes upon those who did them any injury.
Who acts: Hibich · What happens: protect, play, do · To what, where: forests, serious jokes, jokes
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 (Hibich), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 protected | nsubj |
| 2 | protected | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 forests | det |
| 4 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 protected | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 played | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 played | cc |
| 7 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 protected | conj |
| 8 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 jokes | amod |
| 9 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 played | obj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 those | case |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 played | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 those | acl:relcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | obj |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 injury | det |
| 16 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 protected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | past | Hibich | the forests | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | play | past | Hibich not said here | serious jokes | upon those | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | past | jokes = joke | who nsubj; any injury obj | tree rules |
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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