Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 78
At the end of three months Moritz revealed the secret to the French sovereign, and the governor of the island of Bourbon received forthwith the command to treat Madame d'Aubert with royal honours.
Who acts: Moritz, governor · What happens: reveal, receive, treat · To what, where: secret, French sovereign, end, Madame d'Aubert
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, governor), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 revealed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 months | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 months | nummod |
| 6 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | Moritz | Moritz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 revealed | nsubj |
| 8 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 secret | det |
| 10 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 revealed | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sovereign | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sovereign | det |
| 13 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sovereign | amod |
| 14 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 revealed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 received | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 received | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 governor | det |
| 18 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 received | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 island | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 island | det |
| 21 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 governor | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Bourbon | case |
| 23 | Bourbon | Bourbon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 island | nmod |
| 24 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 revealed | conj |
| 25 | forthwith | forthwith | ADP | _ | 27 command | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 command | det |
| 27 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 received | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 treat | mark |
| 29 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 received | advcl |
| 30 | Madame | Madame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 d'Aubert | compound |
| 31 | d'Aubert | d'aubert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 treat | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 honours | case |
| 33 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 honours | amod |
| 34 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 treat | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 revealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reveal | past | Moritz | the secret | the French sovereign | at the end of three months | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to sovereign=Recipient | ||
| 2 | receive | past | the governor of the island of Bourbon | forthwith the command | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | treat | to-infinitive | the governor of the island of Bourbon not said here | Madame d'Aubert | with royal honours | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent d'aubert=Recipient with honour=Theme |
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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