Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 66
Though this relation continued seven years, and ended only through Eva's death, no one discovered the secret; he himself revealed it in his partial love for her only son, whom he sought to make his heir.
Who acts: relation, one, Eva · What happens: continue, end, discover, reveal, seek, make · To what, where: death, secret, partial love, son, 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 (relation, one, Eva), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 continued | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 relation | det |
| 3 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 continued | nsubj |
| 4 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 continued | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ended | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ended | cc |
| 9 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 continued | parataxis |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 death | advmod |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 death | case |
| 12 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 death | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Eva | case |
| 14 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ended | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 discovered | punct |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 discovered | nsubj |
| 18 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ended | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 secret | det |
| 20 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 discovered | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 revealed | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 revealed | nsubj |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 22 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 continued | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 revealed | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 love | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 love | nmod:poss |
| 28 | partial | partial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 love | amod |
| 29 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 revealed | obl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 revealed | obl |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 son | advmod |
| 33 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 revealed | vocative |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sought | punct |
| 35 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 sought | obj |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 sought | nsubj |
| 37 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 son | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 make | mark |
| 39 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 sought | xcomp |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 heir | nmod:poss |
| 41 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 make | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | this relation | year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | end | past | Eva's death | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | discover | past | no one | the secret | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic | ||||
| 4 | reveal | past | relation | secret | relation's partial love | for love; son vocative | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||
| 5 | seek | past | relation | son | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | relation not said here | relation's heir | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heir=Product | ||||
| 7 | die | Eva | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | love | relation | nom love «feeling 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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