Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 121
He had dipped a little into the natural sciences, and learned a smattering of some of the absurdities of German Pantheism, and held himself competent to solve the mysteries of creation, and moral relations, of the universe and of mind, much better than the old-fashioned Moses and the Prophets, or St. Paul.
Who acts: Stammnitz · What happens: dip, learn, hold, solve · To what, where: little, natural sciences, smattering, Stammnitz, mysteries
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stammnitz), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dipped | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dipped | aux |
| 3 | dipped | dip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dipped | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 sciences | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sciences | det |
| 8 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sciences | amod |
| 9 | sciences | science | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dipped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 learned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 learned | cc |
| 12 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dipped | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 smattering | det |
| 14 | smattering | smattering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 learned | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 some | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 smattering | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 absurdities | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 absurdities | det |
| 19 | absurdities | absurdity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 some | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Pantheism | case |
| 21 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Pantheism | amod |
| 22 | Pantheism | pantheism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 absurdities | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 held | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 held | cc |
| 25 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 learned | conj |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 held | obj |
| 27 | competent | competent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 held | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 solve | mark |
| 29 | solve | solve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 competent | xcomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 mysteries | det |
| 31 | mysteries | mystery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 solve | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 creation | case |
| 33 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mysteries | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 relations | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 relations | cc |
| 36 | moral | moral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 relations | amod |
| 37 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dipped | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 universe | punct |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 universe | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 universe | det |
| 41 | universe | universe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dipped | parataxis |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 mind | cc |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 mind | case |
| 44 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 universe | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 better | punct |
| 46 | much | much | ADV | _ | 47 better | advmod |
| 47 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 41 universe | parataxis |
| 48 | than | than | ADP | _ | 53 Moses | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 Moses | det |
| 50 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 fashioned | amod |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 old | punct |
| 52 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 Moses | amod |
| 53 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 better | obl |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 Prophets | cc |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 Prophets | det |
| 56 | Prophets | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Plur | 53 Moses | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 Paul | punct |
| 58 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 60 Paul | cc |
| 59 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 Paul | nmod:desc |
| 60 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 Moses | conj |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | past · perfect | Stammnitz | a little | the natural sciences | moral relations obl; the universe and mind parataxis | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into science=Location | ||
| 2 | learn | past | a smattering of some of the absurdities of German Pantheism | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smattering=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hold | past | Stammnitz | competent property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | solve | to-infinitive | the mysteries of creation | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mystery=Topic |
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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