Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 99
The amazement of the two friends increased every moment, for the Jew was known to be one of the richest men in the place.
Who acts: amazement · What happens: increase, know, be, amaze · To what, where: Jew, one, two friends
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 (amazement), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 amazement | det |
| 2 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 increased | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 friends | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 friends | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 friends | nummod |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 amazement | nmod |
| 7 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 increased | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 known | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 known | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Jew | det |
| 13 | Jew | Jew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 known | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 known | aux:pass |
| 15 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 increased | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 one | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 one | cop |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 known | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 men | det |
| 21 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 men | amod |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 men | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | past | the amazement of the two friends | moment | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | past · passive | the Jew | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | one | of the richest men in the place | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | amaze | the two friends | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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