Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 122
Art irrevocably chained to the convent?" he cried in horror, for even love started back from the gulf that such an oath had made between them, opposing their union. "
Who acts: Art, love · What happens: chain, cry, start back, make, oppose · To what, where: horror, gulf, oath, union · 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 (Art, love), 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 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chained | nsubj |
| 2 | irrevocably | irrevocably | ADV | _ | 3 chained | advmod |
| 3 | chained | chain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 convent | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 convent | det |
| 6 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chained | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 chained | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 chained | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chained | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 horror | case |
| 12 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 started | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 started | mark |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 love | advmod |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 started | nsubj |
| 17 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 started | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 gulf | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gulf | det |
| 21 | gulf | gulf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 started | obl |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 made | obj |
| 23 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 oath | det:predet |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 oath | det |
| 25 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 made | aux |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 gulf | acl:relcl |
| 28 | between | between | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 made | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 opposing | punct |
| 31 | opposing | oppose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 started | advcl |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 union | nmod:poss |
| 33 | union | union | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 opposing | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chained | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 chained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chain | past | Art | to the convent; irrevocably property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | art | horror | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in horror=Location | ||||
| 3 | start back in a quote | past | love | the gulf | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | past · perfect · passive | such oath | between arms = arm; the gulf obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary that=Product | ||||
| 5 | oppose in a quote | gerund | love not said here | arms's union | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=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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