Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 53
The courtiers are talking; Alice insists on leaving me; I know it is out of sorrow she condemns me who am so far innocent.
Who acts: courtiers, Alice, I, clock · What happens: talk, insist, leave, know, be, condemn · To what, where: me, sorrow · 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 (courtiers, Alice, I, clock), 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 courtiers | det |
| 2 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 talking | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 talking | aux |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 insists | punct |
| 6 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 insists | nsubj |
| 7 | insists | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 talking | parataxis |
| 8 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 leaving | mark |
| 9 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 insists | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 leaving | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 condemns | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sorrow | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sorrow | cop |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 sorrow | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sorrow | case |
| 18 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | ccomp |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 condemns | nsubj |
| 20 | condemns | condemn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 talking | parataxis |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 condemns | obj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 innocent | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 innocent | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 innocent | advmod |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 innocent | advmod |
| 26 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 condemns | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present · progressive | the courtiers | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | insist speech: other | present | Alice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | Alice not said here | me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | present | clock | sorrow | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | condemn | present | Alice | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | present | who nsubj; far, innocent property | tree rules |
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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