Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 96
She called together those nuns who were in her full confidence, represented to them how they had to fear betrayal from the novice Lina, and to defend themselves they must destroy her.
Who acts: Abbess, nuns · What happens: call together, be, represent, have, fear, defend · To what, where: nuns, full confidence, betrayal, novice, 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, nuns), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 called | advmod |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 nuns | det |
| 5 | nuns | nun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 called | xcomp |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 confidence | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 confidence | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 confidence | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 confidence | nmod:poss |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 confidence | amod |
| 11 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nuns | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 represented | punct |
| 13 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 confidence | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 represented | obl |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 had | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 represented | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 fear | mark |
| 20 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | xcomp |
| 21 | betrayal | betrayal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fear | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 novice | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 novice | det |
| 24 | novice | novice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fear | obl |
| 25 | Lina | Lina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 novice | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 destroy | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 destroy | cc |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 defend | mark |
| 29 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 destroy | advcl |
| 30 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 defend | obj |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 destroy | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 destroy | aux |
| 33 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 called | advcl |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 destroy | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call together speech: assert | past | Abbess | that nuns | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | that nuns | Abbess's full confidence | Abbess nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | represent | participle | Abbess's full confidence not said here | nuns = nun | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to they=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | have | past | nuns = nun | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fear | to-infinitive | nuns = nun not said here | betrayal | the novice | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer betrayal=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | defend | to-infinitive | nuns = nun not said here | nuns = nun | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | destroy | must | nuns = nun | 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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