Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 1
Just at this period the doctrines of the Christian faith had penetrated into the Harz; Egbert had become a convert, and had won Thusnelda also for the new faith.
Who acts: Egbert · What happens: penetrate, become, win, indoctrinate · To what, where: period, Harz, convert, Thusnelda, Christian faith
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Egbert), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 period | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 period | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 period | det |
| 4 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 penetrated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 doctrines | det |
| 6 | doctrines | doctrine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 penetrated | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 faith | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 faith | det |
| 9 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 faith | amod |
| 10 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doctrines | nmod |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 penetrated | aux |
| 12 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 Harz | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Harz | det |
| 15 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 penetrated | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 become | punct |
| 17 | Egbert | Egbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 become | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 become | aux |
| 19 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 penetrated | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 convert | det |
| 21 | convert | convert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 become | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 won | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 won | cc |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 won | aux |
| 25 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 penetrated | conj |
| 26 | Thusnelda | Thusnelda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 won | obj |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 25 won | advmod |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 faith | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 faith | det |
| 30 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 faith | amod |
| 31 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 won | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 penetrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | penetrate | past · perfect · passive | this period | the Harz | the doctrines of the Christian faith nsubj | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | become | past · perfect | Egbert | a convert | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | win | past · perfect | Thusnelda | for the new faith | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thusnelda=Theme for faith=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | indoctrinate | the Christian faith | nom doctrine «cognition 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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