Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 68
Not long after the papers brought the news of the tragical end of Alexis, the probability of his having been beheaded.
Who acts: papers · What happens: bring, behead · To what, where: news, probability
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 (papers), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 brought | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 brought | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 papers | det |
| 5 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 news | det |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 11 | tragical | tragical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 end | amod |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 news | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Alexis | case |
| 14 | Alexis | Alexis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 end | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 probability | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 probability | det |
| 17 | probability | probability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Alexis | appos |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 beheaded | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 beheaded | nmod:poss |
| 20 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 beheaded | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 beheaded | aux:pass |
| 22 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 probability | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the papers | the news of the tragical end of Alexis | long property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent news=Theme | |||
| 2 | behead | gerund · perfect · passive | the probability not said here | Petersburg nmod:poss | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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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