Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 12
Happy sisters, ye are as yet safe from our mournful fate, for ye are secure in your retreat from the barbarian!"
Who acts: Happy sisters, ye, our · What happens: be, fate · To what, where: mournful fate, retreat
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Happy sisters, ye, our), 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 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sisters | amod |
| 2 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 safe | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sisters | punct |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 safe | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 safe | cop |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 yet | advmod |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 safe | advmod |
| 8 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 fate | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fate | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fate | amod |
| 12 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 safe | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 secure | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 secure | case |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 secure | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 secure | cop |
| 17 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 safe | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 retreat | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 retreat | nmod:poss |
| 20 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 secure | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 barbarian | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 barbarian | det |
| 23 | barbarian | barbarian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 secure | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 safe | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 safe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Happy sisters | our mournful fate | yet | ye nsubj; safe property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | present | ye | your retreat | from the barbarian; secure property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fate | our | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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