Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 8
At length, to make himself secure of the entire wealth of the cave, he put out Tidian's eyes and shut him up in the castle dungeon.
Who acts: Tidian · What happens: make, secure, put out, shut up · To what, where: Tidian, length, eyes, castle dungeon
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 (Tidian), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wealth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wealth | det |
| 10 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wealth | amod |
| 11 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 secure | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cave | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cave | det |
| 14 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wealth | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | nsubj |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | parataxis |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 put | compound:prt |
| 19 | Tidian | Tidian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Tidian | case |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 put | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shut | cc |
| 23 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 shut | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 shut | compound:prt |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 dungeon | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dungeon | det |
| 28 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dungeon | compound |
| 29 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shut | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | Tidian | length | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | secure | infinitive | Tidian not said here | of the entire wealth of the cave | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | put out | past | Tidian | Tidian's eyes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal | ||||
| 4 | shut up | infinitive | Tidian | the castle dungeon | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «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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