Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 117
"I have not been able to find anything costly enough, and hence only one thing remains to be done.
Who acts: Three kingdoms, one thing · What happens: not be, find, remain, do · To what, where: anything
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 (Three kingdoms, one thing), 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 | _ | 6 able | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 able | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 able | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 find | obj |
| 10 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 anything | amod |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 costly | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remains | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 remains | cc |
| 14 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 16 one | advmod |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 one | advmod |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 thing | nummod |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remains | nsubj |
| 18 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 done | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 done | aux:pass |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 remains | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present · perfect | Three kingdoms = kingdom | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | Three kingdoms = kingdom not said here | anything | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 3 | remain in a quote | present | one thing | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | one thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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