Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 150
The Duchess Maria died a few months after her rival, and nothing was ever known of the well-guarded secret, until Henry himself betrayed it in his partiality for his favourite son Eitel Henry--Eva's only son and eldest child.
Who acts: Duchess Maria, Henry, Eva · What happens: die, know, guard, betray, be · To what, where: nothing, secret, partiality, son
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 (Duchess Maria, Henry, Eva), 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 | 3 Maria | det |
| 2 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Maria | compound |
| 3 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 months | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 months | amod |
| 7 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 died | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 rival | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 rival | nmod:poss |
| 10 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 known | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 known | cc |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 known | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 known | aux:pass |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 known | advmod |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 died | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 secret | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 secret | det |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 guarded | advmod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 well | punct |
| 21 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 secret | amod |
| 22 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 known | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 betrayed | punct |
| 24 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 betrayed | mark |
| 25 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 betrayed | nsubj |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 25 Henry | nmod:unmarked |
| 27 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 died | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 betrayed | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 partiality | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 partiality | nmod:poss |
| 31 | partiality | partiality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 betrayed | obl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 son | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 son | nmod:poss |
| 34 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 son | amod |
| 35 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 partiality | nmod |
| 36 | Eitel | Eitel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 son | appos |
| 37 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Eitel | flat |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 son | punct |
| 39 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 son | nsubj |
| 40 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 son | cop |
| 41 | only | only | ADV | _ | 42 son | advmod |
| 42 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | parataxis |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 child | cc |
| 44 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 45 child | amod |
| 45 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 son | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the Duchess Maria | after Maria's rival; month | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | know | past · passive | nothing | ever | of the guarded secret | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | guard | participle | well property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | betray | past | Henry Henry | secret | Henry's partiality for Henry's favourite son | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a | present | Eva | son and eldest child | eldest child conj | tree rules |
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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