Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 112
The Jew received a handsome sum, and Bergmann was independent for life through his grateful friend.
Who acts: Jew, Bergmann · What happens: receive, be · To what, where: handsome sum
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 (Jew, Bergmann), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Jew | det |
| 2 | Jew | Jew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 received | nsubj |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sum | det |
| 5 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sum | amod |
| 6 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 independent | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 independent | cc |
| 9 | Bergmann | Bergmann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 independent | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 independent | cop |
| 11 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 received | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 independent | obl |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 friend | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friend | nmod:poss |
| 16 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 friend | amod |
| 17 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 independent | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the Jew | a handsome sum | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Bergmann | for life; through Bergmann's grateful friend; independent property | 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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