Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 136
The following day the villagers who had gone to gather sticks found a vault broken in, and a half-rotten chest open, but empty, and on the ground around lay scattered gold and silver coins with an unknown stamp.
Who acts: villagers · What happens: follow, go, gather, find, break in, lie · To what, where: sticks, vault, scattered gold, ground
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 (villagers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 villagers | det |
| 5 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 found | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 gone | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | aux |
| 8 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 villagers | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 gather | mark |
| 10 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gone | xcomp |
| 11 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gather | obj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 vault | det |
| 14 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obj |
| 15 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 vault | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 broken | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 open | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 open | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 chest | det |
| 20 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 22 rotten | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 half | punct |
| 22 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 chest | amod |
| 23 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 open | nsubj |
| 24 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 found | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 empty | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 empty | cc |
| 27 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 open | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 lay | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 lay | cc |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 ground | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ground | det |
| 32 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lay | obl |
| 33 | around | around | ADV | _ | 34 lay | advmod |
| 34 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | conj |
| 35 | scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 36 gold | amod |
| 36 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lay | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 coins | cc |
| 38 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 coins | compound |
| 39 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 gold | conj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 stamp | case |
| 41 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 stamp | det |
| 42 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 stamp | amod |
| 43 | stamp | stamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lay | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | the villagers | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | gather | to-infinitive | the villagers not said here | sticks | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | the villagers | a vault | day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vault=Topic | |||
| 5 | break in | participle | a vault not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | lie | past | the villagers not said here | scattered gold and silver coins | the ground | with a unknown stamp; around property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=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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