Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 108
Meanwhile tidings reach the Court at Wolfenbüttel that the retired Court lady has been attacked with a virulent plague on her homeward journey, and has expired after a painful illness of only a few hours.
Who acts: Meanwhile tidings, Wolfenbüttel · What happens: reach, attack, expire, journey · To what, where: Court, Wolfenbüttel, retired Court lady
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 (Meanwhile tidings, Wolfenbüttel), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tidings | amod |
| 2 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reach | nsubj |
| 3 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Court | det |
| 5 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reach | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Wolfenbüttel | case |
| 7 | Wolfenbüttel | Wolfenbüttel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reach | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 attacked | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 10 | retired | retired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lady | amod |
| 11 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lady | compound |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 attacked | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 attacked | aux:pass |
| 15 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reach | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 plague | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 plague | det |
| 18 | virulent | virulent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 plague | amod |
| 19 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 attacked | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 journey | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 journey | nmod:poss |
| 22 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 journey | compound |
| 23 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plague | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 expired | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 expired | cc |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 expired | aux |
| 27 | expired | expire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 reach | conj |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 31 illness | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 illness | det |
| 30 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 illness | amod |
| 31 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 expired | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 hours | case |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 36 hours | advmod |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 hours | det |
| 35 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 hours | amod |
| 36 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 illness | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | Meanwhile tidings | the Court | Wolfenbüttel | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent court=Theme at wolfenbüttel=Asset | |||
| 2 | attack | present · perfect · passive | the retired Court lady | with a virulent plague on Wolfenbüttel's homeward journey | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | expire | present · perfect | Meanwhile tidings not said here | after a painful illness of a few hours | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | journey | Wolfenbüttel | nom journey «act 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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