Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 69
But I have the power to punish you both, and I will use it;" and the Duchess and her attendant speedily disappeared in the darkness.
Who acts: I, Duchess · What happens: have, punish, use, disappear · To what, where: power, you, darkness
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, Duchess), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 have | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 power | det |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 punish | mark |
| 7 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 power | acl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 punish | obj |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 use | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 use | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 use | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 use | aux |
| 14 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 use | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 disappeared | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Duchess | det |
| 20 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 disappeared | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 attendant | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 attendant | nmod:poss |
| 23 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Duchess | conj |
| 24 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 25 disappeared | advmod |
| 25 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 darkness | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 darkness | det |
| 28 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 disappeared | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | the power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 2 | punish | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 3 | use | future | I | power | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | disappear in a quote | past | the Duchess and Duchess's attendant | the darkness | speedily property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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