Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 48
Formerly his dwarf majesty was allowed to appear in the upper world every five hundred years, but he is no longer permitted to leave his subterranean abode.
Who acts: dwarf majesty · What happens: allow, appear, permit, leave · To what, where: dwarf majesty, upper world, Hibich, subterranean abode
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf majesty), 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 | Formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 6 allowed | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 majesty | amod |
| 4 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 allowed | aux:pass |
| 6 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 appear | mark |
| 8 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 allowed | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 11 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 world | amod |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appear | obl |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 years | det |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hundred | compound |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 appear | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 permitted | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 permitted | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 permitted | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 permitted | aux:pass |
| 21 | no | no | ADV | _ | 22 longer | advmod |
| 22 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 permitted | advmod |
| 23 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 allowed | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 leave | mark |
| 25 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 permitted | advcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 abode | nmod:poss |
| 27 | subterranean | subterranean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 abode | compound |
| 28 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leave | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past · passive | Hibich's dwarf majesty | formerly property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | appear not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hibich's dwarf majesty not said here | the upper world | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | |||
| 3 | permit | present · passive | Hibich | long property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | to-infinitive | Hibich's subterranean abode | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abode=Theme |
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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