Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 98
It obtained its greatest power under the Ottos, and the imperial princesses were often sent here for their education, or for security in times of danger.
Who acts: convent, princesses · What happens: obtain, send, educate · To what, where: greatest power, Ottos, imperial princesses
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 (convent, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 obtained | nsubj |
| 2 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 power | nmod:poss |
| 4 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 power | amod |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 obtained | obj |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 Ottos | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ottos | det |
| 8 | Ottos | Otto | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 obtained | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sent | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princesses | det |
| 12 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 princesses | amod |
| 13 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sent | aux:pass |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 sent | advmod |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 obtained | conj |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 sent | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 education | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 education | nmod:poss |
| 20 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 security | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 security | cc |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 security | case |
| 24 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 times | case |
| 26 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 security | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 danger | case |
| 28 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 times | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 obtained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | past | convent | convent's greatest power | the Ottos | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset power=Theme | |||
| 2 | send | past · passive | the imperial princesses | here | for princesses's education; security obj; often property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination security=Theme | |||
| 3 | educate | princesses = princess | nom education «act 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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