Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 115
The next day he broke a piece from the stone, the tenth part of it, and presented himself before the Prince.
Who acts: matter · What happens: break, present · To what, where: piece, matter
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 broke | nsubj |
| 5 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 piece | det |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broke | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 stone | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stone | det |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broke | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 part | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 part | det |
| 13 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 part | amod |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stone | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 part | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 presented | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 presented | cc |
| 19 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 broke | conj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 presented | obj |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 Prince | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Prince | det |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 presented | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | matter | a piece | day | from the stone and the tenth part of stone | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient from stone=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | present | past | matter not said here | matter | before the Prince | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
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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