Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 67
And such is my reward for my affection bestowed upon a motherless maiden!
What happens: be, bestow · To what, where: such reward, affection
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 reward | cc |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reward | amod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reward | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 reward | nmod:poss |
| 5 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 affection | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 affection | nmod:poss |
| 8 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reward | nmod |
| 9 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 affection | acl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 maiden | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 maiden | det |
| 12 | motherless | motherless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 maiden | amod |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bestowed | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 reward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | my such reward | for my affection; my nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bestow | participle | my affection not said here | upon a motherless maiden | 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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