Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 94
"It is just that that makes me so angry," answered Neubauer--"that all the appointed sentinels do not help in the least.
Who acts: It, Neubauer, appointed sentinels · What happens: be, answer, appoint, not help · To what, where: that, least · 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 (It, Neubauer, appointed sentinels), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 makes | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 makes | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 makes | mark |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 makes | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 angry | advmod |
| 10 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 makes | parataxis |
| 14 | Neubauer | Neubauer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 help | obj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 sentinels | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sentinels | det |
| 20 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 sentinels | amod |
| 21 | sentinels | sentinel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 help | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 help | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 help | advmod |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 makes | ccomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 least | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 least | det |
| 27 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 help | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | It | that nsubj; me obj; angry, make property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Neubauer | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | appoint in a quote | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not help in a quote | present · do-support | all appointed sentinels | that | the least | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary |
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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