Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 111
The widow swore revenge, and consoled the weeping Trude, begging her only to wait till Walpurgisnacht[1] and her perfidious lover should be punished.
Who acts: widow · What happens: swear, console, beg, wait, punish · To what, where: revenge, weeping, Trude, perfidious lover
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), 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 swore | nsubj |
| 3 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swore | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 consoled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 consoled | cc |
| 7 | consoled | console | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swore | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 weeping | det |
| 9 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consoled | obj |
| 10 | Trude | Trude | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 weeping | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 begging | punct |
| 12 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 consoled | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 begging | obj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 wait | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 wait | mark |
| 16 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 begging | xcomp |
| 17 | till | till | ADP | _ | 18 Walpurgisnacht | case |
| 18 | Walpurgisnacht | Walpurgisnacht | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 wait | obl |
| 19 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 20 1 | punct |
| 20 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 Walpurgisnacht | flat |
| 21 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 20 1 | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 punished | cc |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lover | nmod:poss |
| 24 | perfidious | perfidious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lover | amod |
| 25 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 punished | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 punished | aux:pass |
| 28 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 Walpurgisnacht | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | the widow | revenge | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | console | past | the widow not said here | the weeping | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus weeping=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | gerund | the widow not said here | Trude | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wait not said to happen | to-infinitive | the widow not said here | till Walpurgisnacht | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | punish | should · passive | Trude's perfidious lover | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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