Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 71
You desecrated the holiest; virtue and innocence you have made the tools of vice; you have stolen the _monstrance_ from the altar; you swore a false oath before the altar of the Highest.
Who acts: You · What happens: desecrate, make, steal, swear · To what, where: holiest, tools, you, altar, false oath
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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 desecrated | nsubj |
| 2 | desecrated | desecrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 holiest | det |
| 4 | holiest | holey | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 desecrated | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 virtue | punct |
| 6 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 desecrated | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 innocence | cc |
| 8 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 virtue | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 innocence | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tools | det |
| 13 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 vice | case |
| 15 | vice | vice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tools | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 stolen | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 stolen | aux |
| 19 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 desecrated | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 monstrance | det |
| 21 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 monstrance | amod |
| 22 | monstrance | monstrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stolen | obj |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 stolen | punct |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 altar | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 altar | det |
| 26 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stolen | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 swore | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 swore | nsubj |
| 29 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 desecrated | parataxis |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 oath | det |
| 31 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 oath | amod |
| 32 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 swore | obj |
| 33 | before | before | ADP | _ | 35 altar | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 altar | det |
| 35 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 swore | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Highest | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Highest | det |
| 38 | Highest | Highest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 altar | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 desecrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desecrate | past | You | the holiest | virtue and innocence obl | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holey=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | present · perfect | you | the tools of vice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Product | ||||
| 3 | steal | present · perfect · passive | you | the altar | the _ monstrance obj | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary monstrance=Theme | |||
| 4 | swear | past | you | a false oath | before the altar of the Highest | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality |
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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