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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 89

"Nurse Magda has promised me never to leave her, and her foster-sister Alice, who is strongly attached to her, will be of great assistance in watching over her as they both grow older.

Who acts: foster sister, parents · What happens: promise, not leave, attach, be, watch, grow · To what, where: Nurse, Germany, Alice

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 (foster sister, parents), 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

punctnsubj:passapposauxiobjadvmodmarkxcompobjpunctccnmod:posscompoundpunctnsubjappospunctnsubjaux:passadvmodacl:relclcaseoblpunctauxcopcaseamodparataxismarkadvclcaseoblmarknsubjadvmodadvclxcomppunctroot"PUNCTNurseNOUNMagdaPROPNhasAUXpromisedVERBmePRONneverADVtoPARTleaveVERBherPRON,PUNCTandCCONJherPRONfosterNOUN-PUNCTsisterNOUNAlicePROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONisAUXstronglyADVattachedVERBtoADPherPRON,PUNCTwillAUXbeAUXofADPgreatADJassistanceNOUNinSCONJwatchingVERBoverADPherPRONasSCONJtheyPRONbothADVgrowVERBolderADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_5 promisedpunct
2NursenurseNOUNNumber=Sing5 promisednsubj:pass
3MagdaMagdaPROPNNumber=Sing2 Nurseappos
4hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 promisedaux
5promisedpromiseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs5 promisediobj
7neverneverADVPronType=Neg9 leaveadvmod
8totoPART_9 leavemark
9leaveleaveVERBVerbForm=Inf5 promisedxcomp
10hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 leaveobj
11,,PUNCT_30 assistancepunct
12andandCCONJ_30 assistancecc
13herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 sisternmod:poss
14fosterfosterNOUNNumber=Sing16 sistercompound
15--PUNCT_14 fosterpunct
16sistersisterNOUNNumber=Sing30 assistancensubj
17AliceAlicePROPNNumber=Sing16 sisterappos
18,,PUNCT_22 attachedpunct
19whowhoPRONPronType=Rel22 attachednsubj
20isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 attachedaux:pass
21stronglystronglyADV_22 attachedadvmod
22attachedattachVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass17 Aliceacl:relcl
23totoADP_24 hercase
24hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 attachedobl
25,,PUNCT_16 sisterpunct
26willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin30 assistanceaux
27bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf30 assistancecop
28ofofADP_30 assistancecase
29greatgreatADJDegree=Pos30 assistanceamod
30assistanceassistanceNOUNNumber=Sing5 promisedparataxis
31ininSCONJ_32 watchingmark
32watchingwatchVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part30 assistanceadvcl
33overoverADP_34 hercase
34hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 watchingobl
35asasSCONJ_38 growmark
36theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs38 grownsubj
37bothbothADV_38 growadvmod
38growgrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin32 watchingadvcl
39olderoldADJDegree=Cmp38 growxcomp
40..PUNCT_5 promisedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1promise speech: promise in a quotepresent · perfect · passiveNurseGermanytree rules
2not leave not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitivenursevn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3attach in a quotepresent · passiveAlicenursestrongly propertyvn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to she=Co-Patient
4is in a quotefuturenurse's foster sisterof great assistancetree rules
5watch in a quotegerundnurse's foster sister not said hereover nursevn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location
6grow in a quotepresentparents = parentboth, old propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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