Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 55
His second wife, a cruel step-mother, who oppressed her beautiful step-daughter, keeps him company.
Who acts: cruel step mother, second wife · What happens: oppress, keep · To what, where: beautiful step daughter, tradition
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 (cruel step mother, second wife), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 wife | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mother | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mother | det |
| 6 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mother | amod |
| 7 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mother | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 step | punct |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 oppressed | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 oppressed | nsubj |
| 12 | oppressed | oppress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 mother | acl:relcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 daughter | amod |
| 15 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 daughter | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 step | punct |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 oppressed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wife | punct |
| 19 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 keeps | obj |
| 21 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keeps | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oppress | past | a cruel step mother | wife's beautiful step daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | tradition's second wife | tradition | company obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme company=Attribute |
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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