Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 156
The learned Duke Henry Julius, founder of a university, never forgot the refusal of his noble illegitimate brother to deprive him of his birthright, and ever remained his warm friend.
Who acts: learned Henry Julius · What happens: learn, not forget, deprive, remain, refuse · To what, where: refusal, Julius, warm friend, noble illegitimate brother
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 (learned Henry Julius), 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 | 5 Julius | det |
| 2 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Julius | amod |
| 3 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Henry | compound |
| 4 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Julius | compound |
| 5 | Julius | Julius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 forgot | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 founder | punct |
| 7 | founder | founder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Julius | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 university | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 university | det |
| 10 | university | university | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 founder | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Julius | punct |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 forgot | advmod |
| 13 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 refusal | det |
| 15 | refusal | refusal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forgot | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 brother | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 brother | amod |
| 19 | illegitimate | illegitimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 brother | amod |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 refusal | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 deprive | mark |
| 22 | deprive | deprive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 forgot | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 deprive | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 birthright | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 birthright | nmod:poss |
| 26 | birthright | birthright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deprive | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 remained | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 remained | cc |
| 29 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 remained | advmod |
| 30 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 forgot | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 friend | nmod:poss |
| 32 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 friend | amod |
| 33 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 remained | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not forget | past | the learned Henry Julius | the refusal of Julius's noble illegitimate brother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deprive | to-infinitive | the learned Henry Julius not said here | Julius | of Julius's birthright | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Source of birthright=Theme | |||
| 4 | remain | past | the learned Henry Julius not said here | Julius's warm friend | ever | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme friend=Attribute | |||
| 5 | refuse | Julius's noble illegitimate brother | nom refusal «communication 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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