Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 49
A dwarf of one cave had often brought him a bundle of healing herbs for his sick mother, and he knew that he always laid healing plants ready for those who had entreated his help.
Who acts: storm · What happens: bring, know, lay, heal, entreat, help · To what, where: dwarf, plants, help
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dwarf | det |
| 2 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cave | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cave | nummod |
| 5 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dwarf | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | aux |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 brought | advmod |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brought | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bundle | det |
| 11 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 herbs | case |
| 13 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 herbs | compound |
| 14 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bundle | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 mother | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mother | amod |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 herbs | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 knew | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 knew | nsubj |
| 22 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 laid | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 laid | nsubj |
| 25 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 26 laid | advmod |
| 26 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 knew | advcl |
| 27 | healing | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 laid | xcomp |
| 28 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 healing | obj |
| 29 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 healing | xcomp |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 those | case |
| 31 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 ready | obl |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 entreated | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 entreated | aux |
| 34 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 those | acl:relcl |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 help | nmod:poss |
| 36 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 entreated | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect · passive | a dwarf of one cave | storm obj; a bundle of healing herbs for storm's sick mother obj; often property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | storm | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | lay | past | storm | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | heal | gerund | storm not said here | plants | ready property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | |||
| 5 | entreat | past · perfect | storm's help | who nsubj | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | help | storm | nom help «act transitive»: 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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