Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 75
Madame d'Aubert conjured him not to betray her secret, told him her story, and how it had been chiefly through his mother she had succeeded in escaping from Russia.
Who acts: Madame · What happens: conjure, not betray, tell, succeed, escape · To what, where: chance, secret, story, Russia · 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 (Madame), 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 | Madame | Madame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 conjured | nsubj |
| 2 | d'Aubert | d'Aubert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Madame | flat |
| 3 | conjured | conjure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 conjured | obj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 betray | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 betray | mark |
| 7 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 conjured | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 secret | nmod:poss |
| 9 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 betray | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 conjured | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 story | nmod:poss |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 succeeded | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 succeeded | cc |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 succeeded | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 succeeded | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 succeeded | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 succeeded | aux:pass |
| 21 | chiefly | chiefly | ADV | _ | 27 succeeded | advmod |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 mother | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 succeeded | obl |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 succeeded | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 succeeded | aux |
| 27 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 told | conj |
| 28 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 29 escaping | mark |
| 29 | escaping | escape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 succeeded | advcl |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Russia | case |
| 31 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 escaping | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 conjured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conjure | past | Madame | chance | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result | ||||
| 2 | not betray | to-infinitive | Madame not said here | Madame's secret | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Madame's story | chance | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | ||||
| 4 | succeed | past · perfect · passive | story | through chance's mother; Madame nsubj; chiefly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | escape | gerund | Russia | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from russia=Initial_Location |
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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