Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 69
So it had come that for a whole generation no one had sought to come near the White Stag.
Who acts: usual, whole generation · What happens: come, seek · To what, where: one, White Stag
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 (usual, whole generation), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 generation | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 generation | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 generation | amod |
| 9 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sought | aux |
| 13 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 generation | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sought | xcomp |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 Stag | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Stag | det |
| 18 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Stag | amod |
| 19 | Stag | Stag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | usual | for a whole generation | that property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | seek | past · perfect · passive | a whole generation not said here | no one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | a whole generation not said here | the White Stag | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near stag=Location |
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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