Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 32
But she could not tell him her purpose, and, as they parted, whispered, "to-morrow we will see each other again."
Who acts: Jutta, debts, we · What happens: not tell, part, whisper, see, purpose · To what, where: purpose, Ernst, each · Speech: someone speaks here
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, debts, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 tell | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 tell | advmod |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 8 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 parted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 parted | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 parted | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 parted | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 parted | nsubj |
| 14 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whispered | punct |
| 16 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 parted | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 morrow | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 to | punct |
| 21 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 see | obl |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 whispered | ccomp |
| 25 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 24 see | obj |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 each | fixed |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 see | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | could | Jutta | Jutta's purpose | Ernst | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient purpose=Topic | |||
| 2 | part | past | debts = debt | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | past | debts = debt not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | future | we | each | again | to morrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | purpose | Jutta | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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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