Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 76
Delighted at the double discovery, Moritz promised to keep the secret three months, at the expiration of which time he declared it to be his duty to communicate the fact to the King of France, Louis XV.
Who acts: Moritz · What happens: promise, keep, declare, be, communicate · To what, where: expiration, duty, fact, King · 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 (Moritz), 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 | Delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 discovery | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 discovery | det |
| 4 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 discovery | amod |
| 5 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Delighted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 promised | punct |
| 7 | Moritz | Moritz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 promised | nsubj |
| 8 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Delighted | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 keep | mark |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 promised | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 months | det |
| 12 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 months | amod |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 months | nummod |
| 14 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 keep | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 expiration | punct |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 expiration | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 expiration | det |
| 18 | expiration | expiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 expiration | nmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 declared | nsubj |
| 23 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 time | acl:relcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 declared | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 duty | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 duty | cop |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 duty | nmod:poss |
| 28 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 declared | ccomp |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 communicate | mark |
| 30 | communicate | communicate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 duty | acl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fact | det |
| 32 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 communicate | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 King | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 King | det |
| 35 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 fact | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 France | case |
| 37 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 King | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Louis | punct |
| 39 | Louis | Louis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 King | appos |
| 40 | XV | XV | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Louis | flat |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | Moritz | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | Moritz not said here | the expiration of which time | month | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at expiration=Location | |||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | Moritz | expiration | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | Moritz's duty | Moritz nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | communicate | to-infinitive | Moritz not said here | the fact | the King of France | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fact=Topic to king=Recipient |
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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