Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 97
This would be most easily accomplished by permitting a meeting with her lover after she had assumed the veil, surprise her, accuse her of breaking her vow, and then wall her up alive.
Who acts: Abbess · What happens: accomplish up, permit, assume, surprise, accuse, break · To what, where: This, meeting, veil, Abbess, vow
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), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 accomplished | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 accomplished | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 accomplished | aux:pass |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 easily | advmod |
| 5 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 6 accomplished | advmod |
| 6 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 permitting | mark |
| 8 | permitting | permit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 accomplished | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 meeting | det |
| 10 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 permitting | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 lover | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lover | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meeting | nmod |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 assumed | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 assumed | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 assumed | aux |
| 17 | assumed | assume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 permitting | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 veil | det |
| 19 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 assumed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 surprise | punct |
| 21 | surprise | surprise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 accomplished | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 surprise | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 accuse | punct |
| 24 | accuse | accuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 surprise | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 accuse | obj |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 breaking | mark |
| 27 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 accuse | advcl |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 vow | nmod:poss |
| 29 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 breaking | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wall | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wall | cc |
| 32 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 wall | advmod |
| 33 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accomplished | obl |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 wall | nmod:unmarked |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 accomplished | compound:prt |
| 36 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 accomplished | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 accomplished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accomplish up | would · passive | This | wall Abbess obl; alive, easily property | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | permit | gerund | a meeting | with Abbess's lover | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Theme | ||||
| 3 | assume | past · perfect | Abbess | the veil | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme | ||||
| 4 | surprise | infinitive | Abbess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | accuse | infinitive | Abbess | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 6 | break | gerund | Abbess's vow | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vow=Patient | |||||
| 7 | vow | Abbess | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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