Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 110
The widow reproached him with his perfidy, but he replied, "The eagle mates but with the eagle, and though I have fled from a severe father, I am of noble blood, and have found a Braut of my own rank."
Who acts: widow, Ralf, Ilse · What happens: reproach, reply, flee, be, find · To what, where: Ralf, Braut · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (widow, Ralf, Ilse), 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 | 2 widow | det |
| 2 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reproached | nsubj |
| 3 | reproached | reproach | 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 reproached | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 perfidy | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 perfidy | nmod:poss |
| 7 | perfidy | perfidy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reproached | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 replied | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reproached | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mates | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mates | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mates | det |
| 15 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mates | compound |
| 16 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 eagle | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 eagle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eagle | det |
| 20 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mates | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fled | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fled | cc |
| 23 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 26 fled | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 fled | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 fled | aux |
| 26 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 reproached | parataxis |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 father | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 father | det |
| 29 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 father | amod |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fled | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 blood | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 blood | nsubj |
| 33 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 blood | cop |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 blood | case |
| 35 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 blood | amod |
| 36 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reproached | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 found | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 found | cc |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 found | aux |
| 40 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 reproached | parataxis |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 Braut | det |
| 42 | Braut | Braut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 found | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 rank | case |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 rank | nmod:poss |
| 45 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 rank | amod |
| 46 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Braut | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reproached | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 reproached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reproach | past | the widow | Ralf | with Ralf's perfidy | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Ralf | the eagle mates but the eagle ccomp | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | flee in a quote | present · perfect | Ilse | from a severe father | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from father=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Ilse | of noble blood | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find in a quote | present · perfect | a Braut of my own rank | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent braut=Topic |
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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