Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 53
Once the Abbot, fearing the attack of an enemy, sent the unfortunate brothers out to watch, with the command not to return till the enemy approached.
Who acts: Abbot, enemy · What happens: fear, send, watch, not return, approach, attack · To what, where: attack, unfortunate brothers, enemy
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 (Abbot, enemy), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 Abbot | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Abbot | det |
| 3 | Abbot | Abbot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fearing | punct |
| 5 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Abbot | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 attack | det |
| 7 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fearing | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 enemy | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 enemy | det |
| 10 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attack | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Abbot | punct |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brothers | det |
| 14 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 brothers | amod |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sent | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 sent | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 watch | mark |
| 18 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 return | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 command | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 command | det |
| 22 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 return | obl |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 return | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 return | mark |
| 25 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 watch | parataxis |
| 26 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 29 approached | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 enemy | det |
| 28 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 approached | nsubj |
| 29 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 return | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | gerund | the Abbot not said here | the attack of a enemy | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attack=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the unfortunate brothers | once the Abbot; out property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | ||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not return | to-infinitive | with the command | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | approach | past | the enemy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | attack | a enemy | nom attack «act 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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