Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 103
"Five months after Karl's death my golden-haired Tatjana was born.
Who acts: Karl · What happens: bear, die · To what, where: Five months
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 (Karl), 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 | _ | 3 months | punct |
| 2 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 months | nummod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 5 | Karl | Karl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 death | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Karl | case |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 months | nmod |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Tatjana | nmod:poss |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 haired | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 golden | punct |
| 11 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Tatjana | amod |
| 12 | Tatjana | Tatjana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 born | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 born | aux:pass |
| 14 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear in a quote | past · passive | Five months after Karl's death | my haired Tatjana nsubj:pass | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | die in a quote | Karl | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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