Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 80
Ye men are right difficult to please!
What happens: be · To what, where: Ye
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: 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 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 difficult | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ye | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 difficult | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 difficult | amod |
| 5 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 please | mark |
| 7 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 5 difficult | discourse |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | Ye men | difficult property | tree rules |
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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