Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 91
And Fishersche addressed them in a loud voice: "Ye good ravens, ye are as old as the Harz and the primeval forests, and ye know all things; hence ye shall tell me the history of the White Stag."
Who acts: Fishersche, Ye · What happens: address, raven, be, know, tell · To what, where: das, loud voice, things, history, hoarse croaking · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fishersche, Ye), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 addressed | cc |
| 2 | Fishersche | Fishersche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 addressed | nsubj |
| 3 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 addressed | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 voice | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 voice | amod |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 addressed | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 ravens | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 ravens | punct |
| 11 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 ravens | nsubj |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ravens | amod |
| 13 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 addressed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 old | punct |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 old | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 old | cop |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 old | advmod |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 addressed | conj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 Harz | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Harz | det |
| 21 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 old | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 forests | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 forests | det |
| 24 | primeval | primeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 forests | compound |
| 25 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Harz | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 know | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 know | cc |
| 28 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 know | nsubj |
| 29 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 addressed | parataxis |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 things | det |
| 31 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 know | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 tell | punct |
| 33 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 36 tell | advmod |
| 34 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 tell | nsubj |
| 35 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 tell | aux |
| 36 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 addressed | conj |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 tell | iobj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 history | det |
| 39 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tell | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Stag | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Stag | det |
| 42 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Stag | amod |
| 43 | Stag | Stag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 history | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 tell | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past | Fishersche | das = da | a loud voice | tree rules | |||
| 2 | raven in a quote | Ye | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | ye | as the Harz and the primeval forests; old property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | ye | all things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | shall | ye | the history of the White Stag | a hoarse croaking = croaking | hence property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient history=Topic |
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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