Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 73

To explain further, we must go back in our history to Eva's childhood, and her introduction to the court of Henry the Younger, Duke of Brunswick and his Duchess Maria von Wurtemberg.

Who acts: we, Eva · What happens: explain, go back, introduce · To what, where: history

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 (we, 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	To	to	PART	_	2 explain	mark
2	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	advcl
3	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 explain	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 explain	punct
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 history	case
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 history	nmod:poss
11	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 childhood	case
13	Eva	Eva	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 childhood	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Eva	case
15	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 history	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 introduction	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 introduction	cc
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 introduction	nmod:poss
19	introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 court	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 court	det
22	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 introduction	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Henry	case
24	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 court	nmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Younger	det
26	Younger	Younger	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Henry	flat
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Duke	punct
28	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Henry	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Brunswick	case
30	Brunswick	Brunswick	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Duke	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 von	cc
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 von	nmod:poss
33	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Maria	compound
34	Maria	Maria	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 von	compound
35	von	von	PROPN	_	19 introduction	conj
36	Wurtemberg	Wurtemberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 von	flat
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive	we not said here		far property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go back	must	we	our history to Eva's childhood	Eva's introduction to the court of Henry and Duke of Brunswick and Brunswick's Maria von parataxis	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	introduce		Eva		to the court of Henry and Duke of Brunswick	nom introduction «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 73

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 73