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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Abbess | det |
| 2 | Abbess | Abbess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 managed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Abbess | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 managed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 managed | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 managed | nsubj |
| 7 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 details | det |
| 9 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 managed | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 funeral | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 funeral | nmod:poss |
| 12 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 details | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 bound | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 bound | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 priest | det |
| 16 | artistic | artistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 priest | amod |
| 17 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 priest | acl:relcl |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 effigy | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 effigy | compound |
| 22 | effigy | effigy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 spots | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 spots | det |
| 25 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spots | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 plague | punct |
| 27 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 effigy | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 ink | case |
| 29 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spots | nmod |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 face | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 face | nmod:poss |
| 32 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 face | amod |
| 33 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 hands | cc |
| 35 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 face | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 bound | aux:pass |
| 38 | both | both | ADV | _ | 39 bound | advmod |
| 39 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 managed | parataxis |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 oaths | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 oaths | det |
| 42 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 43 solemn | advmod |
| 43 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 oaths | amod |
| 44 | oaths | oath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 bound | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past | the Abbess | the details of your funeral | who nsubj | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | the artistic priest | your wax effigy and the plague spots with ink | your white face and hands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effigy=Product | |||
| 3 | bind | present · passive | the solemn oaths | the artistic priest | both property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | detail | your funeral | nom 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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