Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 95
But the time has arrived when the soldier must go forth to battle, and Eva is sent to her aunt and uncle for a visit of indefinite length.
Who acts: time, soldier · What happens: arrive, go, battle, send, visit · To what, where: Eva, aunt, indefinite length
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 (time, soldier), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | aux |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 go | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soldier | det |
| 8 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 arrived | conj |
| 11 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 battle | mark |
| 13 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 16 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sent | aux:pass |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 arrived | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 aunt | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 21 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 uncle | cc |
| 23 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 aunt | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 visit | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 visit | det |
| 26 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 length | case |
| 28 | indefinite | indefinite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 length | amod |
| 29 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 visit | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present · perfect | the time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | must | the soldier | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | battle | to-infinitive | the soldier not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | send | present · passive | Eva | Eva's aunt and uncle | for a visit of indefinite length | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to aunt=Destination | |||
| 5 | visit | indefinite length | nom visit «act 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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