Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 55

I will seek a divorce from the Duchess, and we will be married in the face of the empire, and your boy, my favourite son, shall be my heir to the ducal throne."

Who acts: I · What happens: seek, marry, be · To what, where: divorce, we, face, heir

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	3 seek	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 seek	aux
3	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 divorce	det
5	divorce	divorce	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seek	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 Duchess	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Duchess	det
8	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 seek	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 married	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 married	cc
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 married	nsubj:pass
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 married	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 married	aux:pass
14	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 seek	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 face	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 face	det
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 married	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 empire	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 empire	det
20	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 face	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 boy	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 boy	cc
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 boy	nmod:poss
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seek	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 son	punct
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 son	nmod:poss
27	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 son	amod
28	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 boy	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 heir	punct
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 heir	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 heir	cop
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heir	nmod:poss
33	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 boy	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 throne	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 throne	det
36	ducal	ducal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 throne	amod
37	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heir	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seek	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 seek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek	future	I	a divorce		from the Duchess; your boy my favourite son and my heir parataxis	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent divorce=Theme
2	marry	future · passive		we	the face of the empire		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is a	shall	I not said here	my heir		to the ducal throne; my nmod:poss	tree rules

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 55