Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 1
The Virgin Mary, for it was she herself, broke off clusters of the roses and formed a drinking-cup, and as the teamster would return it filled with wine, the vision had vanished.
Who acts: Mary, Virgin Mary, vision · What happens: be, break off, form, return, fill, vanish · To what, where: herself, clusters, drinking cup, cup
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mary, Virgin Mary, vision), 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 Mary | det |
| 2 | Virgin | Virgin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mary | compound |
| 3 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 herself | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 herself | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 herself | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 herself | cop |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 herself | nsubj |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 Mary | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mary | punct |
| 11 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 broke | compound:prt |
| 13 | clusters | cluster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 broke | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 roses | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 roses | det |
| 16 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 clusters | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 formed | cc |
| 18 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 broke | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cup | det |
| 20 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cup | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 drinking | punct |
| 22 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 formed | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 return | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 return | cc |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 teamster | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 teamster | det |
| 27 | teamster | teamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 return | obl |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 return | aux |
| 29 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 broke | parataxis |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 return | obj |
| 31 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 return | acl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 wine | case |
| 33 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 filled | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 vanished | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 vision | det |
| 36 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 vanished | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 vanished | aux |
| 38 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 return | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mary | herself = she | she nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | break off | past | the Virgin Mary | clusters of the roses | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cluster=Patient | ||||
| 3 | form | past | the Virgin Mary not said here | a drinking cup | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cup=Theme | ||||
| 4 | return | would | cup | as the teamster | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fill | participle | with wine | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wine=Instrument | |||||
| 6 | vanish | past · perfect | the vision | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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