Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 37
I wish I had never left my uncle's castle, and the protection of my brothers.
Who acts: I · What happens: wish, not leave, protect · To what, where: protection, castle, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 left | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 left | advmod |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 wish | ccomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 castle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 uncle | case |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 protection | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 protection | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 protection | det |
| 14 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wish | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 brothers | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 protection | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | the protection of my brothers | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not leave | past · perfect | I | my uncle's castle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | protect | my brothers | nom protection «act 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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