Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 144

Oh, Henry! be good to my children, and never attempt to make Eitel your heir.

Who acts: Henry · What happens: be, not attempt, not make · To what, where: heir, Eitel

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 (Henry), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 good	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 good	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Henry	punct
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	cop
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 children	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 children	nmod:poss
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 good	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 attempt	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 attempt	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 attempt	advmod
13	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 attempt	xcomp
16	Eitel	Eitel	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 heir	nmod:poss
18	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive	Henry			to my children; good property	tree rules
2	not attempt	infinitive	Henry not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	not make	to-infinitive	Henry not said here	your heir	Eitel		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset eitel=Beneficiary heir=Product

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 144

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 144