Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 14
"Pray, Miss Rosenmore, you do not keep up that absurd idea of going to church?
Who acts: you, absurd idea · What happens: not keep up, go · To what, where: Pray, church
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, absurd idea), 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 | _ | 2 Pray | punct |
| 2 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Miss | punct |
| 4 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pray | conj |
| 5 | Rosenmore | Rosenmore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Miss | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pray | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 keep | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 keep | advmod |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 keep | compound:prt |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 idea | det |
| 13 | absurd | absurd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 idea | amod |
| 14 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 going | mark |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 idea | acl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 church | mark |
| 18 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 going | xcomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep up in a quote | present · do-support | you | Pray and Miss | that absurd idea obj | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent idea=Theme | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | gerund | that absurd idea not said here | church | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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