Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 34
The happy father bestowed gifts lavishly, and instituted an annual _Volksfest_, and called his castle Questenberg.
Who acts: happy father · What happens: bestow, institute, call · To what, where: gifts, annual Volksfest, castle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (happy father), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 2 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 father | amod |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bestowed | nsubj |
| 4 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bestowed | obj |
| 6 | lavishly | lavishly | ADV | _ | 4 bestowed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 instituted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 instituted | cc |
| 9 | instituted | institute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bestowed | conj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Volksfest | det |
| 11 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Volksfest | amod |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 annual | punct |
| 13 | Volksfest | Volksfest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 instituted | obj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Volksfest | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 called | cc |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bestowed | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 castle | nmod:poss |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | obj |
| 20 | Questenberg | Questenberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 castle | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bestowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bestow | past | the happy father | gifts | lavishly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | institute | participle | the happy father not said here | a annual Volksfest | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volksfest=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | past | the happy father not said here | father's castle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent castle=Recipient |
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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