Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 26
I gave you my left hand at the altar, the wedding-ring and its diamond keeper glitter on this little hand I hold in mine.
Who acts: I · What happens: give, hold · To what, where: left hand, you, altar, little hand
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hand | amod |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 altar | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 altar | det |
| 9 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ring | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ring | det |
| 12 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ring | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 wedding | punct |
| 14 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 glitter | cc |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 glitter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 keeper | compound |
| 18 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 glitter | compound |
| 19 | glitter | glitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ring | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 hand | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 hand | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hand | amod |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 glitter | nmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 hold | nsubj |
| 25 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 hand | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 mine | case |
| 27 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hold | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | I | my left hand | you | the altar | the wedding ring and altar's keeper glitter on this little hand parataxis | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient hand=Theme at altar=Asset | |
| 2 | hold | present | I | this little hand not said here | in mine | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in my=Location |
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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