Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 43
I was at your imagined funeral, and discovered the farce, but no mortal save myself knows of my discovery.
Who acts: I, mortal save, my · What happens: imagine, be, discover, know · To what, where: imagined funeral, farce
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, mortal save, my), 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 | 6 funeral | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 funeral | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 funeral | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 funeral | nmod:poss |
| 5 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 funeral | amod |
| 6 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 discovered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 discovered | cc |
| 9 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 funeral | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 farce | det |
| 11 | farce | farce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 discovered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knows | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 knows | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 save | det |
| 15 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 save | amod |
| 16 | save | save | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knows | nsubj |
| 17 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 save | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 discovered | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 discovery | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 discovery | nmod:poss |
| 21 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knows | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 funeral | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | participle | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | I | your imagined funeral | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | discover | past | the farce | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farce=Topic | |||||
| 4 | know | present | no mortal save myself | of my discovery | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of discovery=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | discover | my | nom discovery «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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