Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 85
Those conditions were not made in jest or scorn; his knightly word is irreproachable.
Who acts: knightly word, Conrad · What happens: not make, be, word · To what, where: conditions, jest
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 (knightly word, Conrad), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 conditions | det |
| 2 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 made | advmod |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 jest | case |
| 7 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 scorn | cc |
| 9 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jest | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 irreproachable | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 word | nmod:poss |
| 12 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 word | amod |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 irreproachable | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 irreproachable | cop |
| 15 | irreproachable | irreproachable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 made | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | past · passive | that conditions | jest or scorn | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Conrad's knightly word | irreproachable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | word | Conrad | nom word «communication 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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