Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 10
"I am of opinion," resumed the Bürgermeister, "that the execution should take place immediately, before the said Arno does any more mischief."
Who acts: one part, opinion, execution, Arno · What happens: be, resume, take, say · To what, where: Bürgermeister, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one part, opinion, execution, Arno), 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 | _ | 5 opinion | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 opinion | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 opinion | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 opinion | case |
| 5 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resumed | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 opinion | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 resumed | punct |
| 8 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Bürgermeister | det |
| 10 | Bürgermeister | Bürgermeister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 resumed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bürgermeister | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bürgermeister | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 execution | det |
| 15 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 resumed | advcl |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 17 take | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mischief | punct |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 28 mischief | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mischief | det |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 mischief | advcl |
| 24 | Arno | Arno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 25 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 mischief | aux |
| 26 | any | any | ADV | _ | 28 mischief | advmod |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 mischief | amod |
| 28 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 resumed | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 resumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | one part of the councillors = part | of opinion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | resume | past | opinion | the Bürgermeister | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bürgermeister=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | should | the execution | place | the more mischief obl; immediately property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | participle | Arno | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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