Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 64
He returned to Stolburg, presented himself before the tribunal, accused himself of his crime, and demanded punishment.
Who acts: anger · What happens: return, present, accuse, demand, incriminate · To what, where: Stolburg, anger, punishment
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 (anger), 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 | 2 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Stolburg | case |
| 4 | Stolburg | Stolburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 presented | punct |
| 6 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 returned | conj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 presented | obj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 tribunal | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tribunal | det |
| 10 | tribunal | tribunal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 presented | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 accused | punct |
| 12 | accused | accuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 presented | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 accused | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 crime | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 crime | nmod:poss |
| 16 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 accused | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 demanded | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 demanded | cc |
| 19 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 returned | conj |
| 20 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 demanded | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | anger | Stolburg | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to stolburg=Result | ||||
| 2 | present | past | anger not said here | anger | before the tribunal | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | accuse | past | anger not said here | anger | of anger's crime | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent himself=Theme of crime=Attribute | |||
| 4 | demand speech: request | past | anger not said here | punishment | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme punishment=Precondition | ||||
| 5 | incriminate | anger | nom crime «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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