Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 88
Many hundred years ago there lived a rich Earl in the Unterharz, who was once seized with a severe illness; he made a vow that if he should recover, he would consecrate his daughter to a convent life.
Who acts: portrait · What happens: live, seize, make, recover, consecrate · To what, where: rich Earl, Unterharz, vow, daughter
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 (portrait), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 years | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Earl | det |
| 8 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Earl | amod |
| 9 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Unterharz | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Unterharz | det |
| 12 | Unterharz | Unterharz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Earl | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seized | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seized | aux:pass |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 seized | advmod |
| 17 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Earl | acl:relcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 illness | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 illness | det |
| 20 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 illness | amod |
| 21 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seized | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 made | nsubj |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 vow | det |
| 26 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 consecrate | mark |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 recover | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 recover | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 recover | aux |
| 31 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 consecrate | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 recover | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 consecrate | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 consecrate | aux |
| 35 | consecrate | consecrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 made | advcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 37 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 consecrate | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 life | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 life | det |
| 40 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 life | compound |
| 41 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 consecrate | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a rich Earl | the Unterharz; there | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme earl=Location | |||
| 2 | seize | past · passive | a rich Earl | with a severe illness; once property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | portrait | a vow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Product | ||||
| 4 | recover a condition, not said to happen | should | portrait | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | consecrate | would | portrait | portrait's daughter | to a convent life | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Result |
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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