Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 70
The nobles of the castle acted as if they owned the whole world; and everything did belong to them that they could take by force, for they lived by robbing, and were guilty of much violence and cruelty.
Who acts: nobles, everything · What happens: act, own, belong, take, live, rob · To what, where: whole world, nobles
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobles, everything), 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 | 2 nobles | det |
| 2 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 acted | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nobles | nmod |
| 6 | acted | act | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 owned | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 owned | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 owned | nsubj |
| 10 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 acted | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 world | amod |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 owned | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 belong | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 belong | cc |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 belong | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 belong | aux |
| 18 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 acted | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 belong | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 take | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 take | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | aux |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 belong | advcl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 force | case |
| 26 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lived | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 lived | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 lived | nsubj |
| 30 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | parataxis |
| 31 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 32 robbing | mark |
| 32 | robbing | rob | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 lived | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 guilty | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 guilty | cc |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 guilty | cop |
| 36 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 robbing | ccomp |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 violence | case |
| 38 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 violence | amod |
| 39 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 guilty | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 cruelty | cc |
| 41 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 violence | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 acted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | participle | the nobles of the castle | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | own | past | nobles = noble | the whole world | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot world=Theme | ||||
| 3 | belong | past · do-support | everything | nobles = noble | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | could | nobles = noble | by force | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | live | past | nobles = noble | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | rob | gerund | nobles = noble not said here | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | past | nobles = noble not said here | of much violence and cruelty; guilty property | 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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