Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 148
Duke Henry had the broken-hearted girl--only twenty-three--buried in the garden of the Staufenburg, returned to Court and insisted on a search of the castle.
Who acts: Duke · What happens: have, break, bury, return, insist, search · To what, where: broken hearted girl, garden, Court, search, castle
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 (Duke), 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 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Duke | flat |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 5 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 girl | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 broken | punct |
| 7 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 three | punct |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 three | advmod |
| 11 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 three | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 twenty | punct |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 had | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 buried | punct |
| 15 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 three | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 garden | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 garden | det |
| 18 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buried | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Staufenburg | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Staufenburg | det |
| 21 | Staufenburg | Staufenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 garden | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 returned | punct |
| 23 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Court | case |
| 25 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 returned | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 insisted | cc |
| 27 | insisted | insist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 returned | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 search | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 search | det |
| 30 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 insisted | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 castle | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 castle | det |
| 33 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 search | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Duke | the broken hearted girl | twenty three obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | |||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | bury | participle | the garden of the Staufenburg | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in garden=Destination | |||||
| 4 | return | past | Court | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to court=Result | |||||
| 5 | insist speech: other | participle | a search of the castle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | search | the castle | nom search «act 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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