Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 44
But for security, in case of another attack, he resolved to lay in fresh provisions, and accordingly sent a messenger to the surrounding villages with an order to the people forthwith to bring the needful supplies.
Who acts: Regenstein, messenger · What happens: resolve, lay, send, bring · To what, where: fresh provisions, messenger, surrounding villages, needful supplies
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Regenstein, messenger), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 resolved | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 security | case |
| 3 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 resolved | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 case | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 case | case |
| 6 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 security | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 attack | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 attack | det |
| 9 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 case | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 security | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 resolved | nsubj |
| 12 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 lay | mark |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 resolved | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 provisions | case |
| 16 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 provisions | amod |
| 17 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lay | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sent | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sent | cc |
| 20 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 21 sent | advmod |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 resolved | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 messenger | det |
| 23 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 villages | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 villages | det |
| 26 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 villages | compound |
| 27 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sent | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 order | case |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 order | det |
| 30 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 people | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 people | det |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sent | obl |
| 34 | forthwith | forthwith | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 people | amod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 bring | mark |
| 36 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 forthwith | xcomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 supplies | det |
| 38 | needful | needful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 supplies | amod |
| 39 | supplies | supplies | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 36 bring | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | Regenstein | for security and case of another attack | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | to-infinitive | Regenstein not said here | fresh provisions | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in provision=Destination | ||||
| 3 | send | past | Regenstein not said here | a messenger | the surrounding villages | with a order; to the people; accordingly property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to village=Destination | ||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive | a messenger not said here | the needful supplies | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent supplies=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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