Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 58
My son shall never be your heir, shall never supplant your first-born son and lawful heir.
Who acts: son, heir · What happens: not be, not supplant, bear · To what, where: heir, born son
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 (son, heir), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heir | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 heir | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 heir | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 heir | cop |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heir | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 supplant | punct |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 supplant | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 supplant | advmod |
| 11 | supplant | supplant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 heir | acl:relcl |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 born | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 first | punct |
| 15 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 son | amod |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 supplant | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 heir | cc |
| 18 | lawful | lawful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 heir | amod |
| 19 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 son | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | shall | My son | your heir | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not supplant | shall | your heir not said here | your born son and lawful heir | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme son=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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