Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 95
One day the sorrowing novice, unhappily, by accident discovered how unworthily the Abbess filled her sacred office, and how great the immorality of the nuns had become, and the Abbess, to render Lina powerless to injure her, resolved to destroy her.
Who acts: Abbess, immorality · What happens: sorrow, discover, fill, become, render, injure · To what, where: sacred office, Lina powerless, Abbess
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 (Abbess, immorality), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unhappily | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 novice | det |
| 4 | sorrowing | sorrow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 novice | amod |
| 5 | novice | novice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unhappily | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 unhappily | punct |
| 7 | unhappily | unhappily | ADV | _ | 11 discovered | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 unhappily | punct |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 accident | case |
| 10 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 discovered | obl |
| 11 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 unworthily | advmod |
| 13 | unworthily | unworthily | ADV | _ | 16 filled | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Abbess | det |
| 15 | Abbess | Abbess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 filled | nsubj |
| 16 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 discovered | ccomp |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 office | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 office | amod |
| 19 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 filled | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 become | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 become | cc |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 great | advmod |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 become | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 immorality | det |
| 25 | immorality | immorality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 become | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 nuns | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 nuns | det |
| 28 | nuns | nun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 immorality | nmod |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 become | aux |
| 30 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 discovered | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 render | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 render | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Abbess | det |
| 34 | Abbess | Abbess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 render | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 render | punct |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 render | mark |
| 37 | render | render | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 discovered | parataxis |
| 38 | Lina | Lina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 powerless | compound |
| 39 | powerless | powerless | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 render | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 injure | mark |
| 41 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 render | advcl |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 injure | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 resolved | punct |
| 44 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 discovered | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 destroy | mark |
| 46 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 resolved | xcomp |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 destroy | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sorrow | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | discover | past | by accident; unhappily property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fill | past | the Abbess | Abbess's sacred office | unworthily property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent office=Patient | |||
| 4 | become | past · perfect | the immorality of the nuns | great property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | render | to-infinitive | the Abbess | Lina powerless | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent powerless=Theme | ||||
| 6 | injure | to-infinitive | the Abbess not said here | Abbess | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | resolve | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | destroy | to-infinitive | Abbess | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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