Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 14
If a hunter who has never shed blood gives him blood that belongs neither to man nor beast, and he both drinks and eats it at the same time, the enchantment of the White Stag is broken."
Who acts: hunter, blood · What happens: not shed, give, belong, drink, eat, break · To what, where: hunter, blood, Ja, man, enchantment, White Stag
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 (hunter, blood), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 gives | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hunter | det |
| 3 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 shed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shed | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 shed | advmod |
| 7 | shed | shed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hunter | acl:relcl |
| 8 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shed | obj |
| 9 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gives | iobj |
| 11 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 belongs | nsubj |
| 13 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 blood | acl:relcl |
| 14 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 16 man | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 belongs | obj |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 beast | cc |
| 18 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 drinks | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drinks | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 drinks | nsubj |
| 22 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 drinks | det |
| 23 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gives | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 eats | cc |
| 25 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gives | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 eats | obj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 time | det |
| 29 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 time | amod |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 broken | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 time | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 enchantment | det |
| 33 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Stag | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Stag | det |
| 36 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Stag | amod |
| 37 | Stag | Stag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 enchantment | nmod |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 broken | aux:pass |
| 39 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 eats | parataxis |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 eats | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shed | present · perfect · passive | a hunter | blood obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | present | a hunter | blood | Ja | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blood=Theme | |||
| 3 | belong | present | blood | man nor beast | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drink | hunter | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | eat | present | a hunter not said here | blood | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | break | present · passive | the enchantment of the White Stag | time | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | enchant | the White Stag | nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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