Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 131
For many years he related only to his wife what had happened, but as he grew old he told the history to his sons, that they might learn therefrom the same lesson as himself.
Who acts: Graumännchen, wife · What happens: relate, happen, grow, tell, learn · To what, where: history, sons, same lesson · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Graumännchen, wife), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 related | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 related | nsubj |
| 5 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 wife | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 related | obl |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 happened | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happened | aux |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 wife | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grew | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 grew | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 grew | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grew | nsubj |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 related | conj |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grew | xcomp |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | nsubj |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 grew | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 history | det |
| 22 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 sons | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sons | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 told | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 learn | punct |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 learn | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 learn | nsubj |
| 29 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 learn | aux |
| 30 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 told | conj |
| 31 | therefrom | therefrom | ADV | _ | 34 lesson | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lesson | det |
| 33 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 lesson | amod |
| 34 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 learn | obj |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 himself | case |
| 36 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 learn | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past | Graumännchen | year | to Graumännchen's wife | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to wife=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | Graumännchen's wife | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | Graumännchen | old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Graumännchen | the history | Graumännchen's sons | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent history=Topic to son=Recipient | |||
| 5 | learn | might | wife | the same lesson | as Graumännchen | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=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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