Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 151
The Duke besought the Pope to recognise him as the heir to the ducal throne, offering a heavy bribe.
Who acts: Duke · What happens: beseech, recognise, offer · To what, where: Pope, Duke, heavy bribe
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Duke | det |
| 2 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 besought | nsubj |
| 3 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Pope | det |
| 5 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 besought | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 recognise | mark |
| 7 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 besought | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 recognise | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 heir | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heir | det |
| 11 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recognise | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 throne | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 throne | det |
| 14 | ducal | ducal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 throne | amod |
| 15 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heir | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 offering | punct |
| 17 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 recognise | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bribe | det |
| 19 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bribe | amod |
| 20 | bribe | bribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 offering | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 besought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beseech | past | the Duke | the Pope | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recognise | to-infinitive | the Duke not said here | Duke | as the heir to the ducal throne | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus as heir=Attribute | |||
| 3 | offer | gerund | the Duke not said here | a heavy bribe | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bribe=Theme |
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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