Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 82
On the journey I will be attacked with the plague in the convent of Gandersheim, and die in a few hours; and then there must be a public funeral; the world and the Court shall see me buried.
Who acts: world, me · What happens: attack, die, be, see, bury · To what, where: I, journey, public funeral, me
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 (world, me), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 journey | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 journey | det |
| 3 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attacked | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 attacked | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 attacked | aux:pass |
| 7 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 plague | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 plague | det |
| 10 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attacked | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 convent | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 convent | det |
| 13 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plague | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Gandersheim | case |
| 15 | Gandersheim | Gandersheim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 convent | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 die | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 die | cc |
| 18 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 attacked | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 hours | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hours | det |
| 21 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hours | amod |
| 22 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 die | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 funeral | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 be | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 be | advmod |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 be | expl |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 be | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 funeral | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 funeral | det |
| 30 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 funeral | amod |
| 31 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attacked | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 see | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 see | nsubj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Court | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Court | det |
| 37 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 world | conj |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 see | aux |
| 39 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 attacked | advcl |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 see | obj |
| 41 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 see | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | future · passive | I | the journey | with the plague in the convent of Gandersheim | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | die | infinitive | hour | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | a public funeral | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | shall | the world and the Court | me | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bury | participle | me not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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