Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 5
"If we take into consideration," continued the Bürgermeister, "how much damage the said Arno of Arnstein has caused, death by the sword is too mild.
Who acts: we · What happens: take, continue, say, cause, be · To what, where: consideration, Bürgermeister, much damage · 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), 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 continued | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 continued | advcl |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 consideration | case |
| 6 | consideration | consideration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 9 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bürgermeister | det |
| 11 | Bürgermeister | Bürgermeister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 continued | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 caused | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 damage | punct |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 damage | amod |
| 16 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Arno | det |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 Arno | amod |
| 19 | Arno | Arno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Arnstein | case |
| 21 | Arnstein | Arnstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Arno | nmod |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 caused | aux |
| 23 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 continued | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 death | punct |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 caused | obl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 sword | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sword | det |
| 28 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mild | obl |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 mild | cop |
| 30 | too | too | ADV | _ | 31 mild | advmod |
| 31 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 caused | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | we | consideration | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into consideration=Destination | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | the Bürgermeister | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | cause in a quote | present · perfect · passive | much damage | death obl; the said Arno of Arnstein nsubj:pass | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | by the sword; mild property | tree rules |
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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