Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 1
It conducts us first past a number of ponds, which formerly supplied the self-denying monks with carp for their fasts, and now swarm with speckled trout.
Who acts: It, ponds, monks · What happens: conduct, supply, deny, swarm, speckle, fast · To what, where: us, number, denying monks
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, ponds, monks), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 conducts | nsubj |
| 2 | conducts | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 conducts | obj |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 conducts | advmod |
| 5 | past | past | ADP | _ | 7 number | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 number | det |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 conducts | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ponds | case |
| 9 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 number | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 supplied | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 supplied | nsubj |
| 12 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 13 supplied | advmod |
| 13 | supplied | supply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ponds | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 monks | det |
| 15 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 denying | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 self | punct |
| 17 | denying | deny | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 monks | amod |
| 18 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 supplied | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 carp | case |
| 20 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 monks | nmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 fasts | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fasts | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fasts | fast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carp | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 swarm | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 swarm | cc |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 swarm | advmod |
| 27 | swarm | swarm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 conducts | parataxis |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 trout | case |
| 29 | speckled | speckle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 trout | amod |
| 30 | trout | trout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 swarm | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 conducts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | present | It | us | a number of ponds | first property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme past number=Destination | ||
| 2 | supply | past | ponds | the denying monks | with carp for monks's fasts; formerly property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent monk=Recipient with carp=Theme | |||
| 3 | deny | gerund | self compound | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | swarm | present | now | with speckled trout | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with trout=Theme | ||||
| 5 | speckle | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | fast | monks = monk | nom fast «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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