Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 32

You knew my dear mamma; you are nearly of my own age; I should miss you sadly."

Who acts: You, I · What happens: know, be, miss · To what, where: dear mamma, you

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 (You, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mamma	nmod:poss
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mamma	amod
5	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 age	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 age	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 age	cop
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	13 age	advmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 age	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 age	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 age	amod
13	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 miss	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 miss	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 miss	aux
17	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	parataxis
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 miss	obj
19	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	17 miss	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 miss	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 miss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	You	my dear mamma			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mamma=Stimulus
2	is	present	you		of my own age	my nmod:poss; nearly property	tree rules
3	miss	should	I	you		sadly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 32