Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 104
Nobody knew who the father was, but it was supposed--as people do in many cases--that he was some fallen and deposed Prince.
Who acts: Nobody, people · What happens: know, suppose, do, fall, depose · To what, where: Ilsenstein, many cases, father, Prince
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 (Nobody, people), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 knew | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 father | det |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 who | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 supposed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 supposed | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 supposed | aux:pass |
| 11 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 supposed | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 cases | case |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cases | amod |
| 18 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 do | obl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 fallen | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 fallen | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fallen | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fallen | aux:pass |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 fallen | nsubj |
| 24 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 supposed | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 deposed | cc |
| 26 | deposed | depose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 fallen | conj |
| 27 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 deposed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Nobody | who obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer who=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | suppose | past · passive | Ilsenstein | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | do | present | people | many cases | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fall | past · passive | father | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 5 | depose | participle | Prince | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=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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