Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 59
"I escaped, and History does not tell what became of me, simply because she does not know.
Who acts: History · What happens: escape, not tell, become, not know · 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 (History), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 escaped | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 escaped | nsubj |
| 3 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tell | cc |
| 6 | History | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 tell | advmod |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 escaped | conj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 became | nsubj |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 became | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 15 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 20 know | advmod |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 know | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 18 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 know | advmod |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tell | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape in a quote | past | History | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | present · do-support | History | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | become in a quote | past | of History; what nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | History | simply property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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