Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 17
"Quite right," voted the councillors; "he must be taken prisoner."
What happens: vote, take · To what, where: councillors, Worship
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 | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 2 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 3 right | advmod |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 6 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 councillors | det |
| 8 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 voted | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 taken | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 taken | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 taken | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 right | conj |
| 15 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | past | the councillors | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent councillor=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | must · passive | Worship | prisoner xcomp | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
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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