Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 25
For some days the holy sisters bore this lamentable disturbance; but at last one morning one of the nuns whispered in fear to her neighbour, "That is certainly the Ursel!"
Who acts: holy sisters, That · What happens: bear, whisper, be · To what, where: lamentable disturbance, one, neighbour, fear, Ursel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (holy sisters, That), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bore | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sisters | det |
| 5 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sisters | amod |
| 6 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bore | nsubj |
| 7 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 disturbance | det |
| 9 | lamentable | lamentable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 disturbance | amod |
| 10 | disturbance | disturbance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bore | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 whispered | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 one | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 morning | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 morning | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 morning | compound |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 one | obl |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 whispered | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 nuns | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 nuns | det |
| 20 | nuns | nun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 whispered | obl |
| 21 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bore | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 fear | case |
| 23 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 whispered | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 neighbour | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 26 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 whispered | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Ursel | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Ursel | punct |
| 29 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 Ursel | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 Ursel | cop |
| 31 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 33 Ursel | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Ursel | det |
| 33 | Ursel | Ursel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 whispered | parataxis |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 Ursel | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | the holy sisters | this lamentable disturbance | day | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disturbance=Patient | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: express | past | the holy sisters not said here | one at last one morning | nun's neighbour | fear | of the nuns | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to neighbour=Recipient clause=Topic | |
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | That | the Ursel | certainly property | tree rules |
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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