Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 8
"So sure as I with this weak tool split this firm rock, so sure as this wood produces a temple for the worship of the one eternal God in this immovable mass of stone, so true is the word, the gospel, which I proclaim to you."
Who acts: weak tool, wood, aged stranger, one eternal · What happens: split, produce, be, proclaim, worship · To what, where: firm rock, temple, true word, gospel, you
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 (weak tool, wood, aged stranger, one eternal), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 sure | advmod |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 I | case |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sure | obl |
| 6 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 10 split | mark |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 tool | det |
| 8 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tool | amod |
| 9 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 split | nsubj |
| 10 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 rock | det |
| 12 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rock | amod |
| 13 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 split | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 sure | advmod |
| 16 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 produces | mark |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 produces | nsubj |
| 20 | produces | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sure | ccomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 temple | det |
| 22 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 produces | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 worship | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 worship | det |
| 25 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 temple | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 eternal | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 eternal | det |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 eternal | nummod |
| 29 | eternal | eternal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 worship | nmod |
| 30 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 eternal | appos |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 mass | case |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 mass | det |
| 33 | immovable | immovable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 mass | amod |
| 34 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 eternal | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 stone | case |
| 36 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 mass | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 word | punct |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 true | advmod |
| 39 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 word | amod |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 word | cop |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 word | det |
| 42 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 gospel | punct |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 gospel | det |
| 45 | gospel | gospel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 word | appos |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 proclaim | punct |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 proclaim | obj |
| 48 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 proclaim | nsubj |
| 49 | proclaim | proclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 gospel | acl:relcl |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 you | case |
| 51 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 proclaim | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split in a quote | past | this weak tool | this firm rock | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient | ||||
| 2 | produce in a quote | present | this wood | a temple | for the worship of the one eternal in this immovable mass of stone | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent temple=Result for worship=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the true word | the gospel appos | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | proclaim in a quote | present | the aged stranger = stranger | the gospel | you | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent which=Theme to you=Attribute | |||
| 6 | worship in a quote | the one eternal in this immovable mass of stone | nom worship «act intransitive»: of=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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