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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 63

The Abbess, too, who managed the details of your funeral, and the artistic priest who made your wax effigy and the plague-spots with ink on your white face and hands, are both bound by the most solemn oaths.

Who acts: Abbess, artistic priest, solemn oaths · What happens: manage, make, bind, detail · To what, where: details, wax effigy, white face, artistic priest, funeral

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 (Abbess, artistic priest, solemn oaths), 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

detnsubjpunctadvmodpunctnsubjdetobjcasenmod:possnmodpunctccdetamodnsubj:passnsubjacl:relclnmod:posscompoundobjccdetcompoundpunctconjcasenmodcasenmod:possamodoblccconjpunctaux:passadvmodparataxiscasedetadvmodamodoblpunctrootTheDETAbbessPROPN,PUNCTtooADV,PUNCTwhoPRONmanagedVERBtheDETdetailsNOUNofADPyourPRONfuneralNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETartisticADJpriestNOUNwhoPRONmadeVERByourPRONwaxNOUNeffigyNOUNandCCONJtheDETplagueNOUN-PUNCTspotsNOUNwithADPinkNOUNonADPyourPRONwhiteADJfaceNOUNandCCONJhandsNOUN,PUNCTareAUXbothADVboundVERBbyADPtheDETmostADVsolemnADJoathsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Abbessdet
2AbbessAbbessPROPNNumber=Sing7 managednsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 Abbesspunct
4tootooADV_7 managedadvmod
5,,PUNCT_7 managedpunct
6whowhoPRONPronType=Rel7 managednsubj
7managedmanageVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 detailsdet
9detailsdetailNOUNNumber=Plur7 managedobj
10ofofADP_12 funeralcase
11youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 funeralnmod:poss
12funeralfuneralNOUNNumber=Sing9 detailsnmod
13,,PUNCT_39 boundpunct
14andandCCONJ_39 boundcc
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 priestdet
16artisticartisticADJDegree=Pos17 priestamod
17priestpriestNOUNNumber=Sing39 boundnsubj:pass
18whowhoPRONPronType=Rel19 madensubj
19mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 priestacl:relcl
20youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 effigynmod:poss
21waxwaxNOUNNumber=Sing22 effigycompound
22effigyeffigyNOUNNumber=Sing19 madeobj
23andandCCONJ_27 spotscc
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 spotsdet
25plagueplagueNOUNNumber=Sing27 spotscompound
26--PUNCT_25 plaguepunct
27spotsspotNOUNNumber=Plur22 effigyconj
28withwithADP_29 inkcase
29inkinkNOUNNumber=Sing27 spotsnmod
30ononADP_33 facecase
31youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 facenmod:poss
32whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos33 faceamod
33facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing19 madeobl
34andandCCONJ_35 handscc
35handshandNOUNNumber=Plur33 faceconj
36,,PUNCT_19 madepunct
37arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin39 boundaux:pass
38bothbothADV_39 boundadvmod
39boundbindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 managedparataxis
40bybyADP_44 oathscase
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 oathsdet
42mostmostADVDegree=Sup43 solemnadvmod
43solemnsolemnADJDegree=Pos44 oathsamod
44oathsoathNOUNNumber=Plur39 boundobl
45..PUNCT_7 managedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1managepastthe Abbessthe details of your funeralwho nsubjvn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Theme
2makepastthe artistic priestyour wax effigy and the plague spots with inkyour white face and handsvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effigy=Product
3bindpresent · passivethe solemn oathsthe artistic priestboth propertyvn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4detailyour funeralnom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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