Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 47
He had already cast many bells, yellow and white, the poem tells us, for churches and chapels, to the praise and glory of God.
Who acts: Founder, poem, God · What happens: cast, tell, glory · To what, where: many bells, us · 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 (Founder, poem, God), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cast | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cast | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 cast | advmod |
| 4 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bells | amod |
| 6 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cast | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 yellow | punct |
| 8 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bells | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 white | cc |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 yellow | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tells | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 poem | det |
| 13 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tells | nsubj |
| 14 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 yellow | conj |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tells | iobj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 churches | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 churches | case |
| 18 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tells | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 chapels | cc |
| 20 | chapels | chapel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 churches | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 praise | punct |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 praise | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 praise | det |
| 24 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 churches | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 glory | cc |
| 26 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 praise | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 God | case |
| 28 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 glory | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | past · perfect | Founder | many bells | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Product | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the poem | us | for churches and chapels and the praise and glory of God | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | |||
| 3 | glory | God | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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