Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 17
His freedom was promised him if the work succeeded, and a body of labourers was given him for the carrying out of his plan.
Who acts: work, Judge · What happens: promise, succeed, give, carry out, plan · To what, where: freedom, Judge, body, plan
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 (work, Judge), 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 | 2 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 2 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | aux:pass |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 promised | iobj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 succeeded | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 work | det |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 succeeded | nsubj |
| 9 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 given | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 given | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 body | det |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 labourers | case |
| 15 | labourers | labourer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 body | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux:pass |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 promised | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 given | iobj |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 carrying | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 carrying | det |
| 21 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 given | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 plan | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 plan | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 plan | nmod:poss |
| 25 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carrying | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past · passive | Judge's freedom | Judge | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | succeed a condition, not said to happen | past | the work | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | past · passive | a body of labourers | Judge | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry out | gerund | Judge's plan | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | plan | Judge | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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