Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 88
Namely, never to permit any one to shoot at birds on the Hibichenstein; for in this way bits of the rock are broken off.
What happens: not permit, shoot, break off · To what, where: one, way bits
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: 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 | Namely | namely | ADV | _ | 5 permit | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Namely | punct |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 permit | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 permit | mark |
| 5 | permit | permit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 permit | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 shoot | mark |
| 9 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 one | acl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 birds | case |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shoot | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 Hibichenstein | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Hibichenstein | det |
| 14 | Hibichenstein | Hibichenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 birds | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 bits | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 bits | case |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 bits | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bits | compound |
| 20 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 broken | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 rock | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rock | det |
| 23 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bits | nmod |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 broken | aux:pass |
| 25 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 permit | parataxis |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 broken | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 permit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not permit | to-infinitive | any one | namely property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shoot | to-infinitive | any one not said here | at birds on the Hibichenstein | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at bird=Destination | ||||
| 3 | break off | present · passive | way bits of the rock | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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