Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 17

As they gave each other a parting embrace, Lina could not tear herself from her lover's arms, and cried, "O Father in heaven! give me strength in this parting hour, and forgive me if my love is sin; but if it is not sin, bless our union."

Who acts: clouds, Lina, O Father, love, my · What happens: give, not tear, cry, forgive, be, not be · To what, where: each, Abbess, strength, clouds, sin, union · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (clouds, Lina, O Father, love), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 gave	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 gave	obj
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 embrace	det
7	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 embrace	compound
8	embrace	embrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tear	punct
10	Lina	Lina	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tear	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tear	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 tear	advmod
13	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 embrace	acl:relcl
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 tear	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	19 arms	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lover	nmod:poss
17	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 arms	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 lover	case
19	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tear	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cried	cc
22	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Father	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Father	punct
25	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Father	compound
26	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 give	nsubj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 heaven	case
28	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Father	nmod
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 Father	punct
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cried	ccomp
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 hour	case
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 hour	det
35	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hour	compound
36	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 forgive	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 forgive	cc
39	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cried	conj
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 forgive	obj
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 sin	mark
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 love	nmod:poss
43	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sin	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 sin	cop
45	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 forgive	advcl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 bless	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 bless	cc
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 sin	mark
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 sin	nsubj
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 sin	cop
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 sin	advmod
52	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 bless	advcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 sin	punct
54	bless	bless	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	parataxis
55	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 union	nmod:poss
56	union	union	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 bless	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 bless	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 bless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	clouds = cloud	each			a parting embrace obj	tree rules
2	not tear	could	Lina	Abbess			from Abbess's lover's arms	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient from arm=Co-Patient
3	cry speech: express	past	clouds = cloud not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give in a quote	infinitive	O Father in heaven	strength	clouds = cloud	hour		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient strength=Theme
5	forgive in a quote	infinitive	clouds = cloud not said here	clouds = cloud				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	my love	sin				tree rules
7	not is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	love	sin				tree rules
8	bless in a quote	infinitive		our union				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=Theme
9	love in a quote		my					nom love «feeling 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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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 17