Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 77
The father leads the happy pair into the great hall, and announces to the assembled guests the betrothal of his daughter, and an early wedding-day.
Who acts: father · What happens: lead, announce, assemble, betroth · To what, where: happy pair, great hall, assembled guests, daughter
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leads | nsubj |
| 3 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pair | det |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pair | amod |
| 6 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leads | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 hall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hall | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hall | amod |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leads | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 announces | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 announces | cc |
| 13 | announces | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 leads | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 guests | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 guests | det |
| 16 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 guests | amod |
| 17 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 announces | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 betrothal | det |
| 19 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 guests | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 daughter | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 betrothal | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 day | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 day | cc |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 day | det |
| 26 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 day | amod |
| 27 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 day | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 wedding | punct |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 announces | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | present | the father | the happy pair | the great hall | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pair=Theme into hall=Destination | |||
| 2 | announce speech: other | present | the father not said here | the assembled guests | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to guest=Recipient | |||
| 3 | assemble | participle | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | betroth | father's daughter | nom betrothal «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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