Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 102
But as true as I am an honest Jew, there is only one person in the whole German Empire that could purchase the jewel, and that is Fugger in Augsburg."
Who acts: I, one person, whole German Empire, that · What happens: be, purchase · To what, where: jewel, Fugger, Augsburg
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 (I, one person, whole German Empire, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 true | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 true | advmod |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 Jew | case |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Jew | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Jew | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Jew | det |
| 8 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Jew | amod |
| 9 | Jew | Jew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 true | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | conj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 one | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 person | nummod |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 is | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Empire | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Empire | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Empire | amod |
| 19 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Empire | amod |
| 20 | Empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 person | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 purchase | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 purchase | aux |
| 23 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 Empire | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 jewel | det |
| 25 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 purchase | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Fugger | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Fugger | cc |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 Fugger | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 Fugger | cop |
| 30 | Fugger | Fugger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 true | parataxis |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Augsburg | case |
| 32 | Augsburg | Augsburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Fugger | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 Fugger | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Fugger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | as a honest Jew | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | one person in the whole German Empire | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | purchase | could | the whole German Empire | the jewel | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset jewel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | Fugger | Augsburg | 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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