Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 22
"I cannot tell how it is with me to-day," said one stranger to his friend. "
Who acts: one stranger, door · What happens: not tell, be, say · To what, where: friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one stranger, door), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 tell | advmod |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 me | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 me | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 me | cop |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 me | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | acl |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 stranger | nummod |
| 18 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 friend | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | can | one stranger = stranger | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | door | day | with one stranger = stranger | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | one stranger | stranger's friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient |
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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