Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 76
He was at once paid with heavy interest, and the castle chaplain received orders to read a mass for the suffering soul.
Who acts: castle chaplain · What happens: pay, receive, read · To what, where: countryman, orders, mass
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 (castle chaplain), 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 | 5 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 paid | aux:pass |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 paid | obl |
| 5 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 interest | case |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 interest | amod |
| 8 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 received | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 received | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chaplain | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chaplain | compound |
| 13 | chaplain | chaplain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 received | nsubj |
| 14 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 paid | conj |
| 15 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 received | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 read | mark |
| 17 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 received | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mass | det |
| 19 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 read | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 soul | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 soul | det |
| 22 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 soul | compound |
| 23 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mass | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past · passive | countryman | with heavy interest | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | the castle chaplain | orders | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 3 | read | to-infinitive | the castle chaplain not said here | a mass | for the suffering soul | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=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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