Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 28
The very next night, the Ritter of the Hainerburg being absent on some villainous scheme, the father with his six sons knelt in the church of the Virgin, and besought her aid in his bold project.
Who acts: next night, father · What happens: be, kneel, beseech, project · To what, where: villainous scheme, six sons, church, aid, bold project
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 (next night, father), 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 | 4 night | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 next | advmod |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 night | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 absent | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 night | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Ritter | det |
| 7 | Ritter | Ritter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 absent | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Hainerburg | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hainerburg | det |
| 10 | Hainerburg | Hainerburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ritter | nmod |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 absent | cop |
| 12 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 scheme | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 scheme | det |
| 15 | villainous | villainous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 scheme | amod |
| 16 | scheme | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 absent | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 father | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 father | det |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scheme | appos |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 sons | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sons | nmod:poss |
| 22 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 sons | nummod |
| 23 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 father | nmod |
| 24 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 sons | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 church | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 church | det |
| 27 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knelt | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Virgin | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Virgin | det |
| 30 | Virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 church | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 besought | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 besought | cc |
| 33 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 absent | conj |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 aid | nmod:poss |
| 35 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 besought | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 project | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 project | nmod:poss |
| 38 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 project | amod |
| 39 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 besought | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 absent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | the next night | some villainous scheme | the Ritter of the Hainerburg nsubj; absent property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kneel | participle | father's six sons not said here | the church of the Virgin | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in church=Location | ||||
| 3 | beseech | past | the next night not said here | happiness's aid | father's bold project | tree rules | |||
| 4 | project | father | nom project «act 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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