Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 51
The savage, vulgar Prince had made his character still more degraded by a dissipated life.
What happens: make, degrade, dissipate · To what, where: savage
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: 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 savage | det |
| 2 | savage | savage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Prince | punct |
| 4 | vulgar | vulgar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Prince | amod |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 savage | appos |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 character | nmod:poss |
| 9 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 degraded | advmod |
| 12 | degraded | degrade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 made | advcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 life | det |
| 15 | dissipated | dissipate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 life | amod |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 degraded | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | the savage | marriage's character obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary character=Product | ||||
| 2 | degrade | participle | still | by a dissipated life | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dissipate | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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