More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 110

He took upon himself the vows of the Cross, and departed for the Holy Land, in the hope that the scourge he had brought upon his district would disappear.

Who acts: visitation, scourge · What happens: take, depart, bring, disappear, vow · To what, where: vows, hope, scourge, Cross

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visitation, scourge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 himself	case
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 took	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vows	det
6	vows	vow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Cross	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cross	det
9	Cross	Cross	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 vows	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 departed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 departed	cc
12	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 Land	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Land	det
15	Holy	Holy	PROPN	_	16 Land	compound
16	Land	Land	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 departed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hope	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hope	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hope	det
20	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 departed	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 disappear	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 scourge	det
23	scourge	scourge	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 disappear	nsubj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 brought	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 brought	aux
26	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 scourge	acl:relcl
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 district	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 district	nmod:poss
29	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 brought	obl
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 disappear	aux
31	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 hope	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	visitation	the vows of the Cross		upon visitation	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Theme
2	depart	participle	visitation not said here		the hope	for the Holy Land	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bring	past · perfect	visitation	the scourge not said here		upon visitation's district	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent scourge=Theme
4	disappear	would	the scourge	the hope not said here			tree rules
5	vow			the Cross			nom vow «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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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