Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 123
"Tell them to search the Staufenburg, and they will discover their mistake.
Who acts: you, messengers · What happens: tell, search, discover, mistake · To what, where: messengers, Staufenburg, mistake · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, messengers), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Tell | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 search | mark |
| 5 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Tell | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Staufenburg | det |
| 7 | Staufenburg | Staufenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 search | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 discover | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 discover | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 discover | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 discover | aux |
| 12 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Tell | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mistake | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 discover | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | messengers = messenger | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | search not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the Staufenburg | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent staufenburg=Location | ||||
| 3 | discover in a quote | future | messengers = messenger | messengers's mistake | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic | ||||
| 4 | mistake in a quote | messengers = messenger | nom mistake «act 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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