Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 83
I can leave my sons with more resignation, for they are noble youths, and able to fight the world's battles; but Eva has the dangerous gift of an unusual beauty, and the world is full of snares and traps for such as she promises to be."
Who acts: I, youths, Eva, world · What happens: leave, be, fight, have, promise, battle · To what, where: sons, battles, dangerous gift, unusual beauty
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 (I, youths, Eva, world), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | aux |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sons | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leave | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 resignation | case |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 resignation | amod |
| 8 | resignation | resignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leave | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 youths | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 youths | case |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 youths | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 youths | cop |
| 13 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 youths | amod |
| 14 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 able | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 able | cc |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 youths | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 fight | mark |
| 19 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 battles | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 world | case |
| 23 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fight | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 has | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 has | cc |
| 26 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 has | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 gift | det |
| 29 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 gift | amod |
| 30 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 beauty | case |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 beauty | det |
| 33 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 beauty | amod |
| 34 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gift | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 full | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 full | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 world | det |
| 38 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 full | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 full | cop |
| 40 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 has | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 snares | case |
| 42 | snares | snare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 full | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 traps | cc |
| 44 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 snares | conj |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 such | case |
| 46 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 42 snares | nmod |
| 47 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 49 promises | mark |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 promises | nsubj |
| 49 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 full | advcl |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 be | mark |
| 51 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 promises | xcomp |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | can | I | my sons | with more resignation | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent son=Recipient with resignation=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | youths = youth | for noble youths | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | youths = youth not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | youths = youth not said here | the world's battles | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | have | present | Eva | the dangerous gift of a unusual beauty | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the world | of snares for such and traps; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | promise speech: promise | present | Eva | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | be not said to happen | to-infinitive | Eva not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | battle | the world | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | gift | a unusual beauty | nom gift «possession 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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