Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 135
The princes of the House of Brunswick were, as I said before, passionate lovers of the chase, and Henry the Younger was no exception to his race.
Who acts: princes, Henry · What happens: be, race · To what, where: exception
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 (princes, Henry), 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 princes | det |
| 2 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 House | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 House | det |
| 5 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 princes | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Brunswick | case |
| 7 | Brunswick | Brunswick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 House | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | cop |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 said | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lovers | punct |
| 15 | passionate | passionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lovers | amod |
| 16 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 chase | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chase | det |
| 19 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lovers | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 exception | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 exception | cc |
| 22 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 exception | nsubj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Younger | det |
| 24 | Younger | Younger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Henry | flat |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 exception | cop |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 exception | det |
| 27 | exception | exception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 race | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 race | nmod:poss |
| 30 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 exception | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princes of the House of Brunswick | I nsubj; passionate lovers of the chase obj; before, say property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Henry | no exception | to Henry's race | tree rules | |||
| 3 | race | Henry | nom race «event intransitive»: 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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