Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 6
"I found such pleasure in the chase, that I besought God to permit me to hunt until the judgment-day.
Who acts: visible form · What happens: find, beseech, permit, hunt · To what, where: such pleasure, chase, God, visible form
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 (visible form), 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 found | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pleasure | amod |
| 5 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 chase | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chase | det |
| 8 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleasure | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 besought | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 besought | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 besought | nsubj |
| 12 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 besought | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 permit | mark |
| 15 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 besought | xcomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 permit | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 hunt | mark |
| 18 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 permit | xcomp |
| 19 | until | until | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 21 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 day | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 judgment | punct |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hunt | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | past | the visible form of the hunter = form | such pleasure | the chase | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Topic | |||
| 2 | beseech in a quote | past | the visible form of the hunter = form | God | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | permit in a quote | to-infinitive | the visible form of the hunter = form not said here | the visible form of the hunter = form | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | hunt not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the visible form of the hunter = form not said here | day | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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