Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 103
It is only permitted me once a year to be at this spot; and whoever meets me here and deserves it as thou, him I make happy--if wealth can make him happy.
Who acts: whoever, I, wealth · What happens: permit, be, meet, deserve, make · To what, where: troubled, spot, me, voice
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whoever, I, wealth), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 permitted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 permitted | aux:pass |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 permitted | advmod |
| 4 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 permitted | obj |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 permitted | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 once | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 spot | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 spot | cop |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 spot | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 spot | det |
| 13 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 permitted | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 meets | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 meets | cc |
| 16 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 meets | nsubj |
| 17 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 permitted | parataxis |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 meets | obj |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 meets | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 deserves | cc |
| 21 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 meets | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 deserves | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 thou | case |
| 24 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 deserves | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 him | punct |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 deserves | obl |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 make | nsubj |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 him | acl:relcl |
| 29 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 make | xcomp |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 make | punct |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 make | mark |
| 32 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 make | nsubj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 make | aux |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 deserves | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 make | obj |
| 36 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 make | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 permitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permit | present · passive | troubled | me obj; once property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme i=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | this spot | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | meet | present | whoever | me | here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | deserve | present | whoever not said here | troubled | as thou; voice obl | tree rules | |||
| 5 | make | present | I | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | make a condition, not said to happen | can | wealth | voice | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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