Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 11
The Fehm is said to have been instituted by Charlemagne to prevent Saxony, which had been forced by his arms to embrace Christianity, from returning to Paganism.
Who acts: Charlemagne, arms, Saxony · What happens: say, institute, prevent, force, embrace, return · To what, where: Fehm, Saxony, Christianity, Paganism · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Charlemagne, arms, Saxony), 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 | 2 Fehm | det |
| 2 | Fehm | Fehm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux:pass |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 instituted | mark |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 instituted | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 instituted | aux:pass |
| 8 | instituted | institute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Charlemagne | case |
| 10 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 instituted | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 prevent | mark |
| 12 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 instituted | advcl |
| 13 | Saxony | Saxony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 prevent | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 forced | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 forced | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 forced | aux:pass |
| 18 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Saxony | acl:relcl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 arms | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 arms | nmod:poss |
| 21 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 forced | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 embrace | mark |
| 23 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 forced | xcomp |
| 24 | Christianity | Christianity | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 embrace | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 returning | punct |
| 26 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 27 returning | mark |
| 27 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 embrace | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Paganism | case |
| 29 | Paganism | Paganism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 returning | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | the Fehm | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | institute | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | Charlemagne | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | prevent | to-infinitive | Charlemagne not said here | Saxony | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer saxony=Theme | ||||
| 4 | force | past · perfect · passive | Fehm's arms | Saxony | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | embrace | to-infinitive | Saxony not said here | Christianity | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christianity=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | return | gerund | Saxony not said here | Paganism | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to paganism=Result |
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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