Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 45
The watch I wear, that you gave me that last morning in the antechamber, when I was on duty as lady in waiting, reminds me of the flight of time, and the unceasing approach of a coming judgment.
Who acts: I, you, lady, last morning, coming judgment · What happens: wear, give, be, wait, remind, come · To what, where: watch, me, duty
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, you, lady, last morning), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 watch | det |
| 2 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wear | obj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wear | nsubj |
| 4 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 gave | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wear | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 reminds | mark |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 morning | amod |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reminds | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 antechamber | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 antechamber | det |
| 15 | antechamber | antechamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 morning | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 duty | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 duty | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 duty | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 duty | cop |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 duty | case |
| 21 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 antechamber | appos |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 lady | case |
| 23 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 duty | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 waiting | mark |
| 25 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 lady | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 morning | punct |
| 27 | reminds | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | advcl |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 reminds | iobj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 flight | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 flight | det |
| 31 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reminds | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 flight | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 approach | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 approach | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 approach | det |
| 37 | unceasing | unceasing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 approach | amod |
| 38 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wear | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 judgment | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 judgment | det |
| 41 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 judgment | amod |
| 42 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 approach | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | I | the watch | the unceasing approach of a coming judgment obl | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | you | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | I | duty | as lady | tree rules | |||
| 4 | wait | gerund | lady not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | remind speech: other | present | last morning in the antechamber | me | of the flight of time | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of flight=Topic | |||
| 6 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | approach | a coming judgment | nom approach «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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