Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 109
He shortly returned, took his staff, thanked Neubauer for the hospitable reception, and said: "Ye were to me as to a near relative, me a perfect stranger; hence, hear as a reward my counsel.
Who acts: Herr, perfect stranger, Ye · What happens: return, take, thank, say, be, hear · To what, where: staff, Neubauer, counsel · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Herr, perfect stranger, Ye), 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 | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 staff | nmod:poss |
| 7 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thanked | punct |
| 9 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 10 | Neubauer | Neubauer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thanked | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 reception | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reception | det |
| 13 | hospitable | hospitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reception | amod |
| 14 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thanked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 me | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 me | punct |
| 20 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 me | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 me | cop |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 said | ccomp |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 relative | case |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 relative | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 relative | det |
| 27 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 relative | amod |
| 28 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 me | punct |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 relative | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 stranger | det |
| 32 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stranger | amod |
| 33 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 hear | punct |
| 35 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 37 hear | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hence | punct |
| 37 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 returned | advcl |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 reward | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 reward | det |
| 40 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hear | obl |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 42 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hear | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Herr | shortly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Herr not said here | Herr's staff | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Theme | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | past | Herr not said here | Neubauer | for the hospitable reception | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent neubauer=Theme for reception=Attribute | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | a perfect stranger | as a near relative me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | Ye | to a perfect stranger = stranger | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hear in a quote | infinitive | Herr not said here | my counsel | as a reward; hence property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer counsel=Stimulus |
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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