Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 7
Unhappily my sinful wish was granted, and for four hundred and fifty years I have hunted the same deer.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: grant, hunt, wish · To what, where: sinful wish, same deer
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 (I, my), 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 | Unhappily | unhappily | ADV | _ | 6 granted | advmod |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sinful | sinful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wish | amod |
| 4 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 granted | aux:pass |
| 6 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hunted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hunted | cc |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 hundred | case |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hundred | compound |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fifty | cc |
| 13 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hundred | conj |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hunted | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 hunted | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hunted | aux |
| 17 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 granted | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 deer | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 deer | amod |
| 20 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hunted | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past · passive | my sinful wish | unhappily property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hunt | present · perfect | I | the same deer | year | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | |||
| 3 | wish | my | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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