Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 31
I will reward you richly if you bring me good news from Duke Henry."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: reward, bring · To what, where: you, good news, me, Duke Henry
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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 reward | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 reward | aux |
| 3 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 reward | obj |
| 5 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 3 reward | advmod |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 bring | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reward | advcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | iobj |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 news | amod |
| 11 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Henry | case |
| 13 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Henry | compound |
| 14 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reward | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 reward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reward | future | I | you | richly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | bring a condition, not said to happen | present | you | good news | me | Duke Henry | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination news=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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