Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 114
She made a league with the evil spirits of the mountains and the air, and devoted herself to the unholy arts of a witch.
Who acts: Faust · What happens: make, devote · To what, where: league, Faust, unholy arts
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 (Faust), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 league | det |
| 4 | league | league | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 spirits | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spirits | det |
| 7 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spirits | amod |
| 8 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 made | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mountains | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mountains | det |
| 11 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spirits | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 air | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mountains | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 devoted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 devoted | cc |
| 17 | devoted | devote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 devoted | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 arts | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 arts | det |
| 21 | unholy | unholy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 arts | amod |
| 22 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 devoted | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 witch | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 witch | det |
| 25 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 arts | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Faust | a league | with the evil spirits of the mountains and the air | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent league=Product | |||
| 2 | devote | past | Faust not said here | Faust | to the unholy arts of a witch goal | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent herself=Theme to art=Goal |
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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