Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 23
Only a few of the nuns were rescued.
What happens: rescue
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: 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 few | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 few | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 nuns | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nuns | det |
| 6 | nuns | nun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 few | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rescued | aux:pass |
| 8 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 few | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 few | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rescue | past · passive | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP» |
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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