Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 35

Over that person there," pointing to Schlosser, "I have no power; he is defended, by a plant which he carries on his person, from every danger!"

Who acts: person, I, plant · What happens: point, have, defend, carry · To what, where: Schlosser, power · 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 (person, I, plant), 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	Over	over	ADP	_	3 person	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 defended	obl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 person	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pointing	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 pointing	punct
7	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 person	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Schlosser	case
9	Schlosser	Schlosser	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pointing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pointing	parataxis
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 power	det
15	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 person	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 defended	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 defended	aux:pass
19	defended	defend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 plant	punct
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 plant	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 plant	det
23	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 defended	obl
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 carries	nsubj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carries	nsubj
26	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 plant	acl:relcl
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 person	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 person	nmod:poss
29	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carries	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 danger	punct
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 danger	case
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 danger	det
33	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 defended	parataxis
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 danger	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 danger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	point in a quote	gerund	that person not said here		Schlosser		tree rules
2	have	present	I	no power			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
3	defend	present · passive	a plant	Schlosser		over that person; every danger parataxis	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary
4	carry	present	a plant			on Schlosser's person; Schlosser nsubj	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 35