Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 4

Suddenly it began to be reported at Court that Henry had bridged over the cleft between himself and his high-born wife.

Who acts: firmness · What happens: begin, report, bridge, bear · To what, where: Court, Henry, cleft

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 (firmness), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 reported	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 reported	aux:pass
6	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 began	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 Court	case
8	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reported	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 bridged	mark
10	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 bridged	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bridged	aux
12	bridged	bridge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 reported	advcl
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 cleft	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cleft	det
15	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bridged	obl
16	between	between	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 cleft	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wife	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 born	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 high	punct
22	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 wife	amod
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 himself	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	firmness			suddenly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	report	to-infinitive · passive	firmness not said here		Court		vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»
3	bridge	past · perfect · passive		Henry	the cleft between Henry		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
4	bear	participle					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 4