Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 39
His Majesty signed to one of his suite, who immediately approached, and counted from a bag which he carried under his arm thirty shining new Gulden, and laid them on the table.
Who acts: Majesty, suite, arm · What happens: sign, approach, count, carry, shine, lay · To what, where: one, bag, arm, new Gulden, prisoners, table
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 (Majesty, suite, arm), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 signed | nsubj |
| 3 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 signed | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 suite | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 suite | nmod:poss |
| 8 | suite | suite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 approached | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 approached | nsubj |
| 11 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 12 approached | advmod |
| 12 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 suite | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 counted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 counted | cc |
| 15 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 signed | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 bag | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bag | det |
| 18 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 counted | obl |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 carried | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 carried | nsubj |
| 21 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bag | acl:relcl |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 arm | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 arm | nmod:poss |
| 24 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carried | obl |
| 25 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 arm | flat |
| 26 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 arm | acl |
| 27 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Gulden | amod |
| 28 | Gulden | Gulden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 shining | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 laid | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 laid | cc |
| 31 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 signed | conj |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 laid | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 table | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 table | det |
| 35 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 laid | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | past | king's Majesty | one of king's suite | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | approach | past | king's suite | immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | count | participle | king's Majesty not said here | a bag | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | Majesty | a bag | king's arm | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 5 | shine | gerund | king's arm not said here | new Gulden | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gulden=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lay | past | king's Majesty not said here | prisoners = prisoner | the table | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on table=Destination |
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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