Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 41
At last one of the reverend prelates grew angry and exclaimed: "Those three partridges now turning on the spit in the kitchen will fly, before the faith of the heretical Augustine monk will gain power in this good city."
Who acts: reverend prelates, three partridges, faith · What happens: grow, exclaim, turn, fly, gain · To what, where: spit, power · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (reverend prelates, three partridges, faith), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 prelates | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prelates | det |
| 6 | reverend | reverend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prelates | compound |
| 7 | prelates | prelate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 exclaimed | cc |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grew | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 fly | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 fly | punct |
| 14 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 partridges | det |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 partridges | nummod |
| 16 | partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fly | nsubj |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 turning | advmod |
| 18 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 partridges | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 spit | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spit | det |
| 21 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turning | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 kitchen | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 kitchen | det |
| 24 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turning | obl |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 fly | aux |
| 26 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 gain | punct |
| 28 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 37 gain | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 faith | det |
| 30 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gain | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 monk | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 monk | det |
| 33 | heretical | heretical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 monk | amod |
| 34 | Augustine | Augustine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 monk | compound |
| 35 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 faith | nmod |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 gain | aux |
| 37 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 fly | parataxis |
| 38 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gain | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 city | case |
| 40 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 city | det |
| 41 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 city | amod |
| 42 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gain | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 fly | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the reverend prelates | at last one; angry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at one=Location | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the reverend prelates not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | gerund | that three partridges not said here | the spit | now | in the kitchen | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on spit=Source in kitchen=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | fly in a quote | future | that three partridges | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | gain in a quote | future | the faith of the heretical Augustine monk | power | in this good city | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient power=Extent in city=Attribute |
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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