Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 100
Bergmann, however, replied with caution, "You have guessed it; we only made a joke of the matter, and came really to beg you to recommend a purchaser."
Who acts: You, we, matter · What happens: reply, guess, make, come, beg, recommend · To what, where: Bergmann, caution, joke, you, purchaser · 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 (You, we, matter), 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 | Bergmann | Bergmann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bergmann | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 caution | case |
| 7 | caution | caution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 guessed | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 guessed | punct |
| 10 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 guessed | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 guessed | aux |
| 12 | guessed | guess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 guessed | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 made | nsubj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 made | advmod |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 joke | det |
| 19 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 matter | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 matter | det |
| 22 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 joke | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | conj |
| 26 | really | really | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 beg | mark |
| 28 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 came | advcl |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 beg | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 recommend | mark |
| 31 | recommend | recommend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 beg | xcomp |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 purchaser | det |
| 33 | purchaser | purchaser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 recommend | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle · passive | Bergmann | with caution; however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | guess in a quote | present · perfect | You | caution | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | past | we | a joke of the matter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Product | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | past | we not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | beg speech: request in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | recommend not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | a purchaser | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purchaser=Theme | ||||
| 7 | joke in a quote | the matter | nom joke «communication intransitive»: of=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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