Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 51
Ernst became the director of the mine, loaded with honours for his discovery, and ever since the valley has been called the Valley of the Lute.
Who acts: Ernst · What happens: become, load, call, discover · To what, where: director, mine, valley · 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 (Ernst), 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 | Ernst | Ernst | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 director | det |
| 4 | director | director | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mine | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mine | det |
| 7 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 director | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 loaded | punct |
| 9 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mine | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 honours | case |
| 11 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 loaded | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 discovery | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 discovery | nmod:poss |
| 14 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 honours | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 called | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 called | cc |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 called | advmod |
| 18 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 23 called | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 valley | det |
| 20 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 called | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 called | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 called | aux:pass |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 became | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Valley | det |
| 25 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 called | xcomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Lute | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Lute | det |
| 28 | Lute | Lute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Valley | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Ernst | the director of the mine | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | load | participle | the mine not said here | with honours for Ernst's discovery | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with honour=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | present · perfect · passive | the valley | ever | the Valley of the Lute xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 4 | discover | Ernst | nom discovery «act 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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