Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 65
Bismarck has set the Germans free, and cleansed the moral atmosphere of the whole empire, sent the Jesuits adrift, and put a bayonet into the hands of every eighty men in a hundred to keep them out."
What happens: set, cleanse, send, put, keep out · To what, where: Bismarck, moral atmosphere, Jesuits, bayonet, hands
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: 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 | Bismarck | Bismarck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 set | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | aux |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Germans | det |
| 5 | Germans | German | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obl |
| 6 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Germans | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cleansed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cleansed | cc |
| 9 | cleansed | cleanse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 atmosphere | det |
| 11 | moral | moral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 atmosphere | amod |
| 12 | atmosphere | atmosphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cleansed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 empire | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 empire | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 empire | amod |
| 16 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 atmosphere | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cleansed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Jesuits | det |
| 20 | Jesuits | Jesuit | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 sent | obj |
| 21 | adrift | adrift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Jesuits | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 put | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 put | cc |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bayonet | det |
| 26 | bayonet | bayonet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 hands | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hands | det |
| 29 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 put | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 men | case |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 men | det |
| 32 | eighty | eighty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 men | compound |
| 33 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hands | nmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 hundred | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 hundred | det |
| 36 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 men | nmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 keep | mark |
| 38 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 put | advcl |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 keep | obj |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 keep | compound:prt |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present · perfect · passive | Bismarck | the Germans obl | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | cleanse | past | the moral atmosphere of the whole empire | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atmosphere=Patient | |||||
| 3 | send | past | the Jesuits | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jesuit=Theme | |||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | a bayonet | the hands of every eighty men in a hundred | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bayonet=Goal | ||||
| 5 | keep out | to-infinitive | Jesuits = jesuit | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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