Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 1
"'Thou bloodthirsty man, thou shalt henceforth no more hunt, but be hunted; thou shalt be thyself a stag in the place of the one thou hast killed, and shalt wander in these preserves centuries long.'
Who acts: Thou, one · What happens: man, hunt, be, stag, have, kill · To what, where: thyself, place, one, more hunt
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, one), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 hunt | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 3 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 man | nsubj |
| 4 | bloodthirsty | bloodthirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hunt | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 hunt | nsubj |
| 8 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 12 hunt | aux |
| 9 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 12 hunt | advmod |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 12 hunt | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 hunt | amod |
| 12 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hunted | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 hunted | cc |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hunted | aux:pass |
| 16 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hunt | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 stag | punct |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 stag | nsubj |
| 19 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 21 thyself | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 thyself | cop |
| 21 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 18 thou | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 stag | det |
| 23 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hunt | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 place | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 place | det |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stag | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 one | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 place | nmod |
| 30 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 hast | nsubj |
| 31 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 one | acl:relcl |
| 32 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 hast | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 wander | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 wander | cc |
| 35 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 36 wander | aux |
| 36 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 hunt | parataxis |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 centuries | case |
| 38 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 preserves | det |
| 39 | preserves | preserve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 centuries | compound |
| 40 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 wander | obl |
| 41 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 wander | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hunt | punct |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 hunt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | man in a quote | Thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | hunt in a quote | infinitive · passive | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | shall | thou not said here | thyself | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stag in a quote | thou | the place of the one | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | thou | the one not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | kill in a quote | participle | the one not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | wander in a quote | shall | century | long property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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