Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 20
No, no; you follow me into my house, and will not regain your freedom till you have paid me!"
Who acts: you · What happens: follow, not regain, pay · To what, where: me, house, freedom, you
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 follow | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 follow | punct |
| 3 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 follow | discourse |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 follow | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 follow | nsubj |
| 6 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 follow | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 follow | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 regain | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 regain | cc |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 regain | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 regain | advmod |
| 15 | regain | regain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 follow | conj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 17 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 regain | obj |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 paid | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 paid | aux |
| 21 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 regain | advcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 paid | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 follow | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | you | me | my house | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme into house=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | not regain | future | you not said here | your freedom | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pay | present · perfect · passive | you | me obj | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient i=Asset |
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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