Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 21
_ and told him he would build him a mill, so soon as the miller signed a promise with blood to be his in thirty years.
Who acts: _, Mill, miller · What happens: tell, build, sign, be · To what, where: Mill, _, promise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, Mill, miller), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 build | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 build | aux |
| 7 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 build | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mill | det |
| 10 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 build | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 signed | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 signed | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 signed | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 miller | det |
| 16 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 signed | nsubj |
| 17 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 promise | det |
| 19 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 signed | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 blood | case |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 promise | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 years | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 years | cop |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 years | nmod:poss |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 years | case |
| 26 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 years | nummod |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 signed | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | _ | Mill | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | build | would | Mill | a mill | _ | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary mill=Product | |||
| 3 | sign | past | the miller | a promise | with blood; soon property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent promise=Destination with blood=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | in Mill's thirty years | Mill nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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