Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 63
Every seven years, on this day, thou shalt take the form of my slain White Stag for a single day, and appear on this spot."
Who acts: seven years · What happens: take, appear, form · To what, where: form, spot, slain 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 (seven years), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 years | det |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 years | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 form | det |
| 13 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Stag | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Stag | nmod:poss |
| 16 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Stag | amod |
| 17 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Stag | amod |
| 18 | Stag | Stag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 form | nmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 21 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 day | amod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 appear | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 appear | cc |
| 25 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 spot | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 spot | det |
| 28 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 appear | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | shall | every seven years and this day | the form of my slain White Stag | day | thou nsubj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||
| 2 | appear | infinitive | every seven years and this day not said here | this spot | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on spot=Location | ||||
| 3 | form | my slain White Stag | nom form «communication 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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