Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 65
Soon after the Earl did not return from a predatory excursion, and many singular reports were circulated concerning his death.
Who acts: Earl · What happens: not return, circulate, concern, die · To what, where: predatory excursion, many singular reports, death
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 (Earl), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 return | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 return | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Earl | det |
| 4 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 return | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 return | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 return | advmod |
| 7 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 excursion | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 excursion | det |
| 10 | predatory | predatory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 excursion | amod |
| 11 | excursion | excursion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 return | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 circulated | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 circulated | cc |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 reports | amod |
| 15 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 reports | amod |
| 16 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 circulated | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 circulated | aux:pass |
| 18 | circulated | circulate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 return | advcl |
| 19 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 circulated | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 death | nmod:poss |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 concerning | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not return | past · do-support | the Earl | a predatory excursion | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from excursion=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | circulate | past · passive | many singular reports | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | concern | gerund | Earl's death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus death=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | die | Earl | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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