Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 17
More frequently resounds the tread of the hunter in this lonely spot, and of the herdsman, who pastures his cows in the beech forest.
Who acts: hunter · What happens: resound, pasture, tread · To what, where: tread, lonely spot, cows, beech forest
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunter), 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 | More | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 resounds | advmod |
| 2 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 3 resounds | advmod |
| 3 | resounds | resound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tread | det |
| 5 | tread | tread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 resounds | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hunter | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hunter | det |
| 8 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tread | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 spot | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 spot | det |
| 11 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spot | amod |
| 12 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 resounds | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pastures | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pastures | cc |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 herdsman | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 herdsman | det |
| 17 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pastures | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pastures | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 pastures | nsubj |
| 20 | pastures | pasture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 resounds | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 cows | nmod:poss |
| 22 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pastures | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 forest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 forest | det |
| 25 | beech | beech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 forest | compound |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pastures | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 resounds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resound | present | the tread of the hunter | this lonely spot | frequently property | vn sound_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tread=Theme | |||
| 2 | pasture | present | student's cows | the beech forest | of the herdsman; who nsubj | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cow=Theme in forest=Destination | |||
| 3 | tread | the hunter | nom tread «act intransitive»: of=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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