Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 42
I have sought you four long years, because I love you, and would save you from a life-long wretchedness.
Who acts: I · What happens: seek, love, save · To what, where: you, long wretchedness
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), 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 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sought | aux |
| 3 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sought | obj |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 years | amod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sought | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 love | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 love | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 love | nsubj |
| 11 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sought | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 love | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 save | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 save | cc |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 save | aux |
| 16 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 love | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 save | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 wretchedness | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wretchedness | det |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 long | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 life | punct |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wretchedness | amod |
| 23 | wretchedness | wretchedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 save | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present · perfect | I | you | year | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | love | present | I | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | save | would | you | a long wretchedness | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme from wretchedness=Source |
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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