Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 1
The ladies promised them the best table during the time, and conducted them to see their treasures, and pointing out three casks filled with gold, promised each one.
Who acts: ladies · What happens: promise, conduct, see, point out, fill, treasure · To what, where: best table, them, ladies, treasures, three casks, one
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ladies | det |
| 2 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 promised | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 table | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 table | amod |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | obj |
| 8 | during | during | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 conducted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 conducted | cc |
| 13 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | parataxis |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 conducted | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 conducted | advcl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 18 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 see | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pointing | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pointing | cc |
| 21 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 promised | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 pointing | compound:prt |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 casks | nummod |
| 24 | casks | cask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pointing | obj |
| 25 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 casks | acl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 filled | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 promised | punct |
| 29 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | conj |
| 30 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 one | det |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 promised | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the ladies | the best table | them = they | time | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal table=Theme | ||
| 2 | conduct | past | ladies = lady | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | ladies's treasures | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treasure=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | point out | gerund | the ladies not said here | three casks | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cask=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fill | participle | three casks not said here | with gold | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with gold=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | promise speech: promise | past | the ladies not said here | each one | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 7 | treasure | ladies = lady | nom treasure «possession 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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