Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 12
"But--but--a--" resumed his Worship, hesitating and undecided, "we must first have the criminal in our power, and that is--not--so--easy a matter.
Who acts: we, that, course · What happens: resume, hesitate, have, be, worship · To what, where: a, criminal, power · 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 (we, that, course), 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 | _ | 9 resumed | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 resumed | cc |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 resumed | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 resumed | cc |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 a | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 resumed | obl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 a | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 resumed | punct |
| 9 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Worship | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 resumed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hesitating | punct |
| 13 | hesitating | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 resumed | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 undecided | cc |
| 15 | undecided | undecided | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hesitating | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 20 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 have | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hesitating | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 criminal | det |
| 23 | criminal | criminal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 power | case |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 power | nmod:poss |
| 26 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 is | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 is | cc |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 is | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 resumed | parataxis |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 easy | punct |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 easy | advmod |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 easy | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 easy | advmod |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 easy | punct |
| 36 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 is | parataxis |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 matter | det |
| 38 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 easy | nsubj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 resumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resume | past | a | course's Worship obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hesitate | gerund | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | have in a quote | must | we | the criminal | our power | first property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent criminal=Patient | ||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | worship | course | nom worship «act intransitive»: poss=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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