Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 59
The sick man became "healthy as a fish" from the hour when he made use of this powerful herb.
Who acts: sick man, man · What happens: become, make, use · To what, where: use, powerful herb
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 (sick man, man), 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 man | det |
| 2 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 healthy | punct |
| 6 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 fish | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fish | det |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 healthy | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 healthy | punct |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 hour | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hour | det |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | obl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 made | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | advcl |
| 17 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 herb | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 herb | det |
| 20 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 herb | amod |
| 21 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 use | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the sick man | hour | healthy property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | past | man | use of this powerful herb | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product | ||||
| 3 | use | this powerful herb | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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