Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 29
We will write to our king, and he will undoubtedly at once release us from our painful positions."
Who acts: We · What happens: write, release · To what, where: king, us, painful positions
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 write | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 write | aux |
| 3 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 king | nmod:poss |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 write | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 will | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 will | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 will | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 write | advcl |
| 11 | undoubtedly | undoubtedly | ADV | _ | 10 will | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 release | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 release | advmod |
| 14 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 write | conj |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 release | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 positions | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 positions | nmod:poss |
| 18 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 positions | amod |
| 19 | positions | position | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 release | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 write | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 write | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | future | We | our king | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | release | infinitive | We not said here | us | our painful positions | once property | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer we=Source |
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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