Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 36
So a Weidemann is found, and it is clear why the White Stag has approached thee: he sees in thee his deliverer."
Who acts: White Stag, Weidemann · What happens: find, be, approach, see · To what, where: Weidemann, thee, deliverer
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 (White Stag, Weidemann), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 found | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Weidemann | det |
| 3 | Weidemann | Weidemann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | aux:pass |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 clear | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 clear | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 clear | expl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 clear | cop |
| 10 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 found | conj |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 approached | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Stag | det |
| 13 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Stag | amod |
| 14 | Stag | Stag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 approached | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 approached | aux |
| 16 | approached | approach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 clear | advcl |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 approached | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 sees | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sees | nsubj |
| 20 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 thee | case |
| 22 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 sees | obl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 deliverer | nmod:poss |
| 24 | deliverer | deliverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sees | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | a Weidemann | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | clear property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | approach | present · perfect | the White Stag | thee | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | present | Weidemann | Weidemann's deliverer | thee | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deliverer=Stimulus |
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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