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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 11

In exchange for his soul, he promised to conduct the water of the spring to the upper town, and produced a roll of parchment containing a plan of the work.

Who acts: fiend · What happens: promise, conduct, produce, contain, roll, plan · To what, where: exchange, water, upper town, roll, plan, parchment

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fiend), 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

caseoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctnsubjmarkxcompdetobjcasedetnmodcasedetamodoblpunctccconjdetobjcasenmodadvcldetobjcasedetnmodpunctrootInADPexchangeNOUNforADPhisPRONsoulNOUN,PUNCThePRONpromisedVERBtoPARTconductVERBtheDETwaterNOUNofADPtheDETspringNOUNtoADPtheDETupperADJtownNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJproducedVERBaDETrollNOUNofADPparchmentNOUNcontainingVERBaDETplanNOUNofADPtheDETworkNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_2 exchangecase
2exchangeexchangeNOUNNumber=Sing8 promisedobl
3forforADP_5 soulcase
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 soulnmod:poss
5soulsoulNOUNNumber=Sing2 exchangenmod
6,,PUNCT_2 exchangepunct
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 promisednsubj
8promisedpromiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9totoPART_10 conductmark
10conductconductVERBVerbForm=Inf8 promisedxcomp
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 waterdet
12waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing10 conductobj
13ofofADP_15 springcase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 springdet
15springspringNOUNNumber=Sing12 waternmod
16totoADP_19 towncase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 towndet
18upperupperADJDegree=Pos19 townamod
19towntownNOUNNumber=Sing10 conductobl
20,,PUNCT_22 producedpunct
21andandCCONJ_22 producedcc
22producedproduceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 promisedconj
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 rolldet
24rollrollNOUNNumber=Sing22 producedobj
25ofofADP_26 parchmentcase
26parchmentparchmentNOUNNumber=Sing24 rollnmod
27containingcontainVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part22 producedadvcl
28aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 plandet
29planplanNOUNNumber=Sing27 containingobj
30ofofADP_32 workcase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 workdet
32workworkNOUNNumber=Sing29 plannmod
33..PUNCT_8 promisedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1promise speech: promisepastfiendexchange for fiend's soulvn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2conduct not said to happento-infinitivefiend not said herethe water of the springthe upper townvn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme to town=Destination
3producepastfiend not said herea roll of parchmentvn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roll=Result
4containgerundfiend not said herea plan of the workvn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot plan=Theme
5rollparchmentnom roll «event transitive»: of=patient
6planthe worknom plan «cognition 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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