Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 66
The countryman hoped for payment from the Earl's heir, but he treated him more roughly than his predecessor had done.
Who acts: countryman, predecessor · What happens: hope, treat, do · To what, where: Earl
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 (countryman, predecessor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 countryman | det |
| 2 | countryman | countryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hoped | nsubj |
| 3 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 payment | case |
| 5 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hoped | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 heir | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Earl | det |
| 8 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 heir | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Earl | case |
| 10 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 payment | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 treated | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 treated | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 treated | nsubj |
| 14 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hoped | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 treated | obj |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 roughly | advmod |
| 17 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 22 done | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 22 done | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 predecessor | nmod:poss |
| 20 | predecessor | predecessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 done | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 done | aux |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 treated | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past | the countryman | for payment from the Earl's heir | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for payment=Theme | ||||
| 2 | treat | past | countryman | Earl | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | Earl's predecessor | roughly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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