Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 95
The Abbesses of these three mitred convents[6] had a seat and vote in the Reichstag, and during the earliest period of their existence the abbesses were of the blood-royal, and only princesses and daughters of the nobility were admitted into their sacred retirement.
Who acts: Abbesses, 6, princesses · What happens: mitre, have, vote, be, admit, exist · To what, where: convents, seat, Reichstag, princesses, sacred retirement
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 (Abbesses, 6, princesses), 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 Abbesses | det |
| 2 | Abbesses | Abbess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 mitred | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 three | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 three | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Abbesses | nmod |
| 6 | mitred | mitre | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | convents | convent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mitred | obj |
| 8 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 had | nsubj |
| 10 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 9 6 | punct |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 convents | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 seat | det |
| 13 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 vote | cc |
| 15 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Reichstag | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Reichstag | det |
| 18 | Reichstag | Reichstag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 vote | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 royal | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 royal | cc |
| 21 | during | during | ADP | _ | 24 period | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 period | det |
| 23 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 period | amod |
| 24 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 royal | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 existence | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 existence | nmod:poss |
| 27 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 period | nmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 abbesses | det |
| 29 | abbesses | abbess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 royal | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 royal | cop |
| 31 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 35 royal | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 royal | det |
| 33 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 royal | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 blood | punct |
| 35 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mitred | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 admitted | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 admitted | cc |
| 38 | only | only | ADV | _ | 39 princesses | advmod |
| 39 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 admitted | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 daughters | cc |
| 41 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 princesses | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 nobility | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 nobility | det |
| 44 | nobility | nobility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 daughters | nmod |
| 45 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 admitted | aux:pass |
| 46 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 royal | parataxis |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 50 retirement | case |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 retirement | nmod:poss |
| 49 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 retirement | amod |
| 50 | retirement | retirement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 admitted | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mitred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mitre | past | the Abbesses of this three | convents | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | 6 | a seat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | vote | infinitive | 6 not said here | the Reichstag | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the abbesses | during the earliest period of Abbesses's existence | royal property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | admit speech: other | past · passive | princesses and daughters of the nobility | princesses's sacred retirement | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | exist | Abbesses = abbess | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | retire | princesses = princess | nom retirement «state intransitive»: 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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