Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 28
They treated him gruffly and severely, and commanded him to set up the fallen pins, and he was obliged to yield.
Who acts: treasures · What happens: treat, command, set up, fall, oblige, yield · To what, where: forest, fallen pins · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (treasures), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 treated | nsubj |
| 2 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 treated | obj |
| 4 | gruffly | gruffly | ADV | _ | 2 treated | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 severely | cc |
| 6 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 4 gruffly | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 commanded | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 commanded | cc |
| 9 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 treated | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 commanded | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 set | mark |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 commanded | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pins | det |
| 15 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 pins | amod |
| 16 | pins | pin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 set | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 obliged | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 obliged | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 obliged | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 obliged | aux:pass |
| 21 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 treated | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 yield | mark |
| 23 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 obliged | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | past | treasures = treasure | forest | gruffly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | command | past | treasures = treasure not said here | forest | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set up | to-infinitive | treasures = treasure not said here | the fallen pins | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient pin=Result | ||||
| 4 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | oblige | past · passive | forest | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 6 | yield | to-infinitive | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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