Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 99
He resolved to show himself to the people as the winner, and commanded his horse to be brought.
Who acts: Three · What happens: resolve, show, command, bring · To what, where: Three, horse · 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 (Three), 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 resolved | nsubj |
| 2 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 show | mark |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 resolved | xcomp |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 show | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 show | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 winner | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 winner | det |
| 11 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 show | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 commanded | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 commanded | cc |
| 14 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 resolved | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 horse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 commanded | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 brought | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 brought | aux:pass |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 commanded | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | Three | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | Three not said here | Three | to the people; as the winner | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Topic to people=Recipient | |||
| 3 | command | past | Three not said here | Three's horse | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive · passive | Three not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» |
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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