Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 1
But let us not be too hard on the Baron in this respect, for the English often make as ludicrous errors in German.
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, not be, make · To what, where: us, Baron
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us), 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 | _ | 2 let | cc |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 let | obj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 hard | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hard | cop |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 hard | advmod |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 let | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Baron | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Baron | det |
| 10 | Baron | Baron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hard | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 respect | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 respect | det |
| 13 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hard | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 English | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 English | det |
| 17 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obl |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 make | advmod |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | parataxis |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 errors | case |
| 21 | ludicrous | ludicrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 errors | amod |
| 22 | errors | error | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 German | case |
| 24 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 errors | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | infinitive | us not said here | the Baron | in this respect; hard property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | present | for the English; as ludicrous errors in German; often property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for english=Beneficiary |
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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