Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 95
Seeing they stood in the way of her marriage, she resolved to free herself of them, and engaged a man named Hager, with promises of rich gifts, to murder them.
Who acts: children, remark · What happens: see, stand, resolve, engage, name, murder · To what, where: way, man, children, rich gifts
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 (children, remark), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 marriage | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 9 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 way | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 resolved | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 resolved | nsubj |
| 12 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 free | mark |
| 14 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 resolved | xcomp |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 free | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 free | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 engaged | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 engaged | cc |
| 20 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 engaged | obj |
| 23 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 man | acl |
| 24 | Hager | Hager | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 named | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 promises | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 promises | case |
| 27 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 engaged | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 gifts | case |
| 29 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 gifts | amod |
| 30 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 promises | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 murder | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 murder | mark |
| 33 | murder | murder | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 engaged | parataxis |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 murder | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | children = child not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | children = child | the way of remark's marriage | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location | ||||
| 3 | resolve | past | remark | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | engage | past | children = child not said here | a man | with promises of rich gifts | tree rules | |||
| 5 | name | participle | a man not said here | Hager xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | murder | to-infinitive | children = child | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||||
| 7 | marry | remark | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | promise | rich gifts | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=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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