Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 51
Eva was saying, "Do not ask me to stay at Court, Henry.
Who acts: Eva · What happens: say, not ask, stay · To what, where: Eva, Court · 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 (Eva), 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 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saying | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saying | aux |
| 3 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
| 6 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 ask | advmod |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 saying | parataxis |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 stay | mark |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ask | xcomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Court | case |
| 13 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 stay | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Henry | punct |
| 15 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Court | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | Eva | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Eva | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Court | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location |
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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