Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 90
The people take advantage of my forbearance and kindness, and it is time to let them see that I can also be angry.
Who acts: people, advantage, I · What happens: take, be, let, see · To what, where: advantage, time, people
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 (people, advantage, I), 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 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 forbearance | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 forbearance | nmod:poss |
| 7 | forbearance | forbearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advantage | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kindness | cc |
| 9 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forbearance | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 time | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 time | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | cop |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 let | mark |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 time | acl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 angry | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 angry | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 angry | aux |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 angry | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 angry | cop |
| 24 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 see | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | the people | advantage of my forbearance and kindness | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | advantage | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | to-infinitive | the people not said here | people | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | people not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | can | I | angry property | tree rules |
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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