Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 62
The priest at Gandershein who united us at the convent altar is bound by his priestly vows, and the heavy bribe I gave him, to silence.
Who acts: priest, priestly vows, heavy bribe, Gandershein · What happens: unite, bind, give, vow · To what, where: us, convent altar, priest, silence, Gandershein
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 (priest, priestly vows, heavy bribe, Gandershein), 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 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Gandershein | case |
| 4 | Gandershein | Gandershein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 priest | nmod |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 united | nsubj |
| 6 | united | unite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 priest | acl:relcl |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 united | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 altar | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 altar | det |
| 10 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 altar | compound |
| 11 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 united | obl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bound | aux:pass |
| 13 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 vows | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 vows | nmod:poss |
| 16 | priestly | priestly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 vows | amod |
| 17 | vows | vow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bound | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gave | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gave | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bribe | det |
| 21 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bribe | amod |
| 22 | bribe | bribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bound | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | iobj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 silence | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 silence | mark |
| 28 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unite | past | the priest at Gandershein | us | the convent altar | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | |||
| 2 | bind | present · passive | Gandershein's priestly vows | the priest at Gandershein | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the heavy bribe | silence | Gandershein | I nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 4 | vow | Gandershein | nom vow «communication 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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