Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 63
But Tradition, who believeth all things and never faileth, says she reached the foot of the mountain and her father's castle in safety.
Who acts: Tradition · What happens: believe, not fail, say, reach · To what, where: things, foot · 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 (Tradition), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 says | cc |
| 2 | Tradition | Tradition | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 believeth | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 believeth | nsubj |
| 5 | believeth | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Tradition | acl:relcl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 things | det |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 believeth | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 faileth | cc |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 faileth | advmod |
| 10 | faileth | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 believeth | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tradition | punct |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 reached | nsubj |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 says | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 foot | det |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mountain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountain | det |
| 19 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 foot | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 castle | cc |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 castle | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 father | case |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 safety | case |
| 26 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 castle | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Tradition | all things | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not fail | present | Tradition not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Tradition | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | tradition | the foot of the mountain | Escape's father's castle in safety conj | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
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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