Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 99
The piety and amiability of the Duchess Maria made such a deep impression on the mind of the statesman and soldier, that he entreated her to become the guardian of his motherless daughter.
Who acts: piety, soldier · What happens: make, entreat, become, mind · To what, where: deep impression, mind, Wolfenbüttel, guardian, statesman
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 (piety, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 piety | det |
| 2 | piety | piety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 amiability | cc |
| 4 | amiability | amiability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 piety | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Maria | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Maria | det |
| 7 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Maria | compound |
| 8 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 amiability | nmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 impression | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 impression | det |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 impression | amod |
| 13 | impression | impression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 mind | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mind | det |
| 16 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 statesman | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 statesman | det |
| 19 | statesman | statesman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mind | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 soldier | cc |
| 21 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 statesman | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 entreated | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 entreated | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 entreated | nsubj |
| 25 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 entreated | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 become | mark |
| 28 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 entreated | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 guardian | det |
| 30 | guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 become | xcomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 daughter | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 33 | motherless | motherless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 daughter | amod |
| 34 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 guardian | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the piety and amiability of the Duchess Maria | such deep impression | the mind of the statesman and soldier | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product | |||
| 2 | entreat | past | soldier | Wolfenbüttel | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | become | to-infinitive | soldier not said here | the guardian of soldier's motherless daughter | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mind | the statesman and soldier | nom mind «cognition 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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