Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 30
Jutta at last resolved to give up Ernst for her father's benefit, but she would see him once more, and assure him that her filial love could not lessen her affection for the choice of her heart.
Who acts: Jutta, filial love · What happens: resolve, give up, see, assure, not lessen, love · To what, where: Jutta, Ernst, affection
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jutta, filial love), 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 | Jutta | Jutta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 resolved | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 resolved | mark |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 resolved | amod |
| 4 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 resolved | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 give | compound:prt |
| 8 | Ernst | Ernst | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 give | iobj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 benefit | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 benefit | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 father | case |
| 13 | benefit | benefit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 see | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 resolved | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 see | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 assure | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 assure | cc |
| 24 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 see | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 assure | obj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 lessen | mark |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 love | nmod:poss |
| 28 | filial | filial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 love | amod |
| 29 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lessen | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 lessen | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 lessen | advmod |
| 32 | lessen | lessen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 assure | advcl |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 affection | nmod:poss |
| 34 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lessen | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 choice | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 choice | det |
| 37 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lessen | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 heart | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 heart | nmod:poss |
| 40 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 choice | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | participle · passive | Jutta | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give up | to-infinitive | Ernst | for Jutta's father's benefit | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ernst=Source | ||||
| 3 | see | would | Jutta | Ernst | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | assure | infinitive | Jutta not said here | Ernst | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | not lessen | could | Jutta's filial love | Jutta's affection | for the choice of Jutta's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent affection=Patient | |||
| 6 | love | Jutta | nom love «feeling 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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