Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 100
"The noble-hearted Kaiser honoured my dying husband, before the second army moved on, with a visit, and the tear his Majesty brushed away did honour to the Sovereign so deservedly beloved.
Who acts: hearted Kaiser, second army, tear · What happens: honour, die, move on, brush away, belov · To what, where: dying husband
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 (hearted Kaiser, second army, tear), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 honoured | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Kaiser | det |
| 3 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hearted | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 noble | punct |
| 5 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Kaiser | amod |
| 6 | Kaiser | Kaiser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 honoured | nsubj |
| 7 | honoured | honour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 honour | advcl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 husband | amod |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 honoured | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 moved | punct |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 moved | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 army | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 army | amod |
| 15 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moved | nsubj |
| 16 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 honoured | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADV | _ | 16 moved | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 visit | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 visit | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 visit | det |
| 21 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moved | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 brushed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 brushed | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tear | det |
| 25 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 brushed | nsubj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 27 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 tear | appos |
| 28 | brushed | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 honour | advcl |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 brushed | advmod |
| 30 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 honour | aux |
| 31 | honour | honour | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 Sovereign | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Sovereign | det |
| 34 | Sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 honour | obl |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 beloved | advmod |
| 36 | deservedly | deservedly | ADV | _ | 37 beloved | advmod |
| 37 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 honour | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 honour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honour in a quote | past | the hearted Kaiser | my dying husband | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die in a quote | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | move on in a quote | past | the second army | with a visit | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | brush away in a quote | past | the tear | away property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | honour in a quote | past · do-support | to the Sovereign | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | belov in a quote | participle | deservedly property | tree rules |
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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