Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 135
"I have promised the treasurer half my kingdom for the stone."
What happens: promise · To what, where: pebble
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: 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 | _ | 4 promised | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | aux |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 treasurer | det |
| 6 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | obj |
| 7 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 9 kingdom | det:predet |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 stone | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stone | det |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present · perfect · passive | a pebble = pebble | for the stone; my kingdom obl:unmarked; the treasurer obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal treasurer=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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