Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 23
This Herr Adam had six sons and an only daughter, Hildegard, who was the loveliest maiden of all the plains of Germany.
Who acts: Herr, six sons · What happens: have, be · To what, where: six sons, loveliest maiden
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 (Herr, six sons), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Herr | det |
| 2 | Herr | Herr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sons | nummod |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 daughter | cc |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 9 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 daughter | amod |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sons | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Hildegard | punct |
| 12 | Hildegard | Hildegard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sons | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 maiden | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 maiden | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 maiden | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 maiden | det |
| 17 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 maiden | amod |
| 18 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sons | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 plains | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 plains | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 plains | det |
| 22 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 maiden | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Germany | case |
| 24 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 plains | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this Herr | six sons Hildegard and a only daughter and the loveliest maiden | Adam nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | six sons Hildegard and a only daughter and the loveliest maiden | the loveliest maiden | of all plains of Germany | tree rules |
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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