Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 44
"Oh, what a pity!" added the father, "that our new church in the New Town must stand so long without either tower or bells.
Who acts: pity, new church · What happens: pity, add, stand · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pity, new church), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pity | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 pity | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 pity | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pity | det |
| 6 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 added | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 pity | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pity | punct |
| 9 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 father | det |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 added | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 father | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 father | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 stand | obj |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 church | nmod:poss |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 church | amod |
| 17 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stand | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Town | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Town | det |
| 20 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Town | compound |
| 21 | Town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 church | nmod |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 stand | aux |
| 23 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 father | acl:relcl |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 long | advmod |
| 25 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 stand | advmod |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 tower | case |
| 27 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 28 tower | cc:preconj |
| 28 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stand | obl |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 bells | cc |
| 30 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 tower | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pity in a quote | what nsubj | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | add speech: express | past | a pity | the father | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | must | our new church in the New Town | the father | without tower or bells; long property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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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