Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 78
The two shepherds repaired to the Abbess of the St. Servatius Convent in Quedlinburg, related what had occurred, and expressed a wish that two towers should be built on the new Nikolai[1] church with the found treasure.
Who acts: two shepherds · What happens: repair, occur, express, build, find · To what, where: two shepherds, wish, two towers, new Nikolai
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 (two shepherds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shepherds | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 shepherds | nummod |
| 3 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 expressed | nsubj |
| 4 | repaired | repair | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shepherds | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Abbess | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Abbess | det |
| 7 | Abbess | Abbess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 repaired | obl:agent |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Convent | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Convent | det |
| 10 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Convent | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Servatius | Servatius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Convent | compound |
| 12 | Convent | Convent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Abbess | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Quedlinburg | case |
| 14 | Quedlinburg | Quedlinburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Convent | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 related | punct |
| 16 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Abbess | amod |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 occurred | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 occurred | aux |
| 19 | occurred | occur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 related | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 expressed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 expressed | cc |
| 22 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 wish | det |
| 24 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 expressed | obj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 built | obj |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 towers | nummod |
| 27 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 built | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 built | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 built | aux:pass |
| 30 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 wish | acl:relcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 Nikolai | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Nikolai | det |
| 33 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Nikolai | amod |
| 34 | Nikolai | Nikolai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 built | obl |
| 35 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 36 1 | punct |
| 36 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 church | discourse |
| 37 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 36 1 | punct |
| 38 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Nikolai | appos |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 treasure | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 treasure | det |
| 41 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 treasure | amod |
| 42 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 church | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repair | participle | the two shepherds not said here | the Abbess of the Servatius Convent St. in Quedlinburg obl:agent | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | occur | past · perfect · passive | what nsubj:pass | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | express | past | the two shepherds | a wish | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | ||||
| 4 | build | should · passive | two towers | the new Nikolai | a wish obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary that=Product | |||
| 5 | find | participle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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