Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 104
[8] _Tut Ursel_--Tooting Ursula--the nun who broke her vow.
Who acts: nun, Ursula · What happens: toot, nun, break, vow · To what, where: vow, 8
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nun, Ursula), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 8 | punct |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 8 | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tut | punct |
| 5 | Tut | Tut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 8 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | Ursel | Ursel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tut | flat |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 nun | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 nun | punct |
| 9 | Tooting | toot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 nun | nsubj |
| 10 | Ursula | Ursula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 nun | nsubj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 nun | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nun | det |
| 13 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Tut | appos |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 broke | nsubj |
| 15 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 nun | acl:relcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 vow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 broke | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 8 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toot | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | nun | Ursula nsubj | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | break | past | the nun | Ursula's vow | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vow=Patient | ||||
| 5 | vow | Ursula | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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