Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 89
Here is the seal of our bond," and he placed a diamond ring on her finger.
Who acts: seal, world, our · What happens: be, place, bond · To what, where: diamond ring, finger
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 (seal, world, our), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seal | det |
| 4 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bond | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bond | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bond | bond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seal | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 placed | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 placed | nsubj |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ring | det |
| 14 | diamond | diamond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ring | amod |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 finger | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 finger | nmod:poss |
| 18 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the seal of our bond | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | place in a quote | past | world | a diamond ring | Wolfenbüttel's finger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on finger=Destination | |||
| 3 | bond | our | nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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