Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 93
Certainly it is vexatious when wicked men lay hands on our property; but as all the people of the earth are not purely honourable, if thou wilt appoint guards, thou wilt soon have the pleasure of seeing the thieves face to face."
Who acts: voice, wicked men, people, thou, pleasure · What happens: be, lay, not be, appoint, have, see · To what, where: hands, property, guards, thieves
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 (voice, wicked men, people, thou), 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 vexatious | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 vexatious | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vexatious | cop |
| 4 | vexatious | vexatious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 lay | advmod |
| 6 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vexatious | advcl |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lay | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 property | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 property | nmod:poss |
| 12 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 have | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 honourable | mark |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 people | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 honourable | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 earth | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 earth | det |
| 21 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 people | nmod |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 honourable | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 honourable | advmod |
| 24 | purely | purely | ADV | _ | 25 honourable | advmod |
| 25 | honourable | honourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 have | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 appoint | punct |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 appoint | mark |
| 28 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 appoint | nsubj |
| 29 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 30 appoint | aux |
| 30 | appoint | appoint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 honourable | conj |
| 31 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 appoint | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 honourable | punct |
| 33 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 have | nsubj |
| 34 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 36 have | aux |
| 35 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 have | advmod |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 vexatious | parataxis |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 pleasure | det |
| 38 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 face | nsubj |
| 39 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 40 seeing | mark |
| 40 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 pleasure | acl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 thieves | det |
| 42 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 seeing | obj |
| 43 | face | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 have | parataxis |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 face | case |
| 45 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 face | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vexatious | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 vexatious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | voice | certainly, vexatious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | wicked men | hands | our property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on property=Destination | |||
| 3 | not is | present | all people of the earth | honourable, purely property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | appoint a condition, not said to happen | future | thou | guards | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | future | thou | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | see | gerund | the pleasure not said here | the thieves | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thief=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | face | present | the pleasure | to face | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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