Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 37
I come to give you a capital piece of advice--the idea just occurred to me."
Who acts: I, idea · What happens: come, give, occur · To what, where: capital piece, you, me
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 (I, idea), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 come | nsubj |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 come | xcomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 7 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 piece | amod |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 advice | case |
| 10 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | nmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 idea | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 idea | det |
| 13 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | appos |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 occurred | advmod |
| 15 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 idea | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 occurred | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | I not said here | a capital piece of advice | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=Theme | |||
| 3 | occur | past | the idea not said here | me | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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