Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 58
He told her she was to take a sufficient number of them to make herself and her sick husband comfortable, and to provide for her children, and with the rest she was to build a church in Grund; but by no means to forget the healing plant.
Who acts: king, Grund, no · What happens: tell, be, make, provide, mean, forget · To what, where: Grund, healing plant · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, Grund, no), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 9 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 number | amod |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 number | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 take | advcl |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 husband | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 husband | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 husband | amod |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 herself | conj |
| 20 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 make | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 provide | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 provide | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 provide | mark |
| 24 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 take | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 children | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 children | nmod:poss |
| 27 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 provide | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 build | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 build | cc |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 rest | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 rest | det |
| 32 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 build | obl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 build | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 build | cop |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 build | mark |
| 36 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 church | det |
| 38 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 build | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 Grund | case |
| 40 | Grund | Grund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 church | nmod |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 means | punct |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 means | cc |
| 43 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 45 means | mark |
| 44 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 45 means | nsubj |
| 45 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | parataxis |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 forget | mark |
| 47 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 means | ccomp |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 plant | det |
| 49 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 plant | compound |
| 50 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 forget | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | king | Grund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | past | Grund | a sufficient number of cones obj; take property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Grund not said here | Grund | comfortable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product | |||
| 4 | provide | to-infinitive | Grund not said here | for Grund's children | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for child=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Grund | with the rest; a church obj; build property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | no | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | forget not said to happen | to-infinitive | the healing plant | 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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