Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 58
The Inquisitors gained my royal father's permission to make away with me, a son who loved him truly.
Who acts: Inquisitors, son, royal father · What happens: gain, make away, love, permit · To what, where: permission, Don
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 (Inquisitors, son, royal father), 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 Inquisitors | det |
| 2 | Inquisitors | inquisitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gained | nsubj |
| 3 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 father | amod |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 permission | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 father | case |
| 8 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gained | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 permission | acl |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 make | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 son | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 son | det |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 permission | appos |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 loved | nsubj |
| 18 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 son | acl:relcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 loved | obj |
| 20 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 18 loved | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past | the Inquisitors | my royal father's permission | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make away | to-infinitive | the Inquisitors not said here | my royal father's permission not said here | with me; away property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 3 | love | past | a son | Don | truly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | permit | my royal father | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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