Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 20

If we suffer wrongfully, if we are misunderstood or despised, we must think of Him who was pure and holy, and who prayed for those who nailed Him to the cross, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."

Who acts: we, persons · What happens: suffer, misunderstand, despise, think, be, pray · To what, where: we, those, God, persons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, persons), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 suffer	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 suffer	nsubj
3	suffer	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 misunderstood	advcl
4	wrongfully	wrongfully	ADV	_	3 suffer	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 suffer	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 misunderstood	mark
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 misunderstood	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 misunderstood	aux:pass
9	misunderstood	misunderstand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 despised	cc
11	despised	despise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 misunderstood	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 think	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 think	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 think	aux
15	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 misunderstood	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Him	case
17	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 think	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 pure	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 pure	cop
20	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 think	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 holy	cc
22	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pure	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 prayed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 prayed	cc
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 prayed	nsubj
26	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 misunderstood	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 those	case
28	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 prayed	obj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 nailed	nsubj
30	nailed	nail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 those	acl:relcl
31	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 nailed	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 cross	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cross	det
34	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nailed	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 those	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 forgive	punct
37	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 forgive	vocative
38	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 those	conj
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 forgive	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 know	punct
41	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 know	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 know	nsubj
43	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 prayed	parataxis
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 know	advmod
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	47 do	obj
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 do	nsubj
47	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 know	ccomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 misunderstood	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 misunderstood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suffer a condition, not said to happen	present	we		wrongfully property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	misunderstand	present · passive		we		vn comprehend-87.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	despise	participle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	think speech: other	must	we		of God	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past			pure property	tree rules
6	be					tree rules
7	pray	past		those		tree rules
8	nail	past		God	to the cross	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to cross=Co-Patient
9	forgive in a quote	infinitive		persons = person	Father vocative	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
10	not know in a quote	present	persons = person			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	do in a quote	present	persons = person			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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