Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 32
It is said he was a master-miner, and begged to be permitted to inspect the mines until the Judgment Day.
Who acts: death · What happens: say, be, beg, permit, inspect · To what, where: dress, master miner, mines · 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 (death), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 miner | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 miner | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 miner | det |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 miner | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 master | punct |
| 9 | miner | miner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 begged | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 begged | cc |
| 12 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 permitted | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 permitted | aux:pass |
| 15 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 begged | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 inspect | mark |
| 17 | inspect | inspect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 permitted | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mines | det |
| 19 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 inspect | obj |
| 20 | until | until | ADP | _ | 23 Day | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Day | det |
| 22 | Judgment | Judgment | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Day | compound |
| 23 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 inspect | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | dress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | death | a master miner | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | permit not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | inspect not said to happen | to-infinitive | the mines | until the Judgment Day | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mine=Theme |
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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