Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 18
"That is also my opinion," said the Bürgermeister. "
Who acts: That, opinion · What happens: be, say · To what, where: opinion · 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 (That, opinion), 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 opinion | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 opinion | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 opinion | cop |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 opinion | advmod |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 6 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 opinion | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 opinion | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bürgermeister | det |
| 11 | Bürgermeister | Bürgermeister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Bürgermeister | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Bürgermeister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | my opinion | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | my opinion | the Bürgermeister nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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