Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 57
Whether the ghostly monk bore relation to this cruel pair we are not told.
Who acts: ghostly monk, cruel pair · What happens: bear, not tell · To what, where: relation, we · 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 (ghostly monk, cruel pair), 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 bore | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 monk | det |
| 3 | ghostly | ghostly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 monk | amod |
| 4 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bore | nsubj |
| 5 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bore | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 pair | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 pair | det |
| 9 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pair | amod |
| 10 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bore | obl |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 told | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 told | aux:pass |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 told | advmod |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pair | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | the ghostly monk | relation | to this cruel pair | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Patient | |||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | present · passive | this cruel pair not said here | we | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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