Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 16
While they insist on preaching the old fables that nobody believes any more, I shall not go.
Who acts: People, old fables, I · What happens: insist, preach, believe, not go · To what, where: old fables
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 (People, old fables, I), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 insist | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 insist | nsubj |
| 3 | insist | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 preaching | case |
| 5 | preaching | preach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 insist | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fables | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fables | amod |
| 8 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 preaching | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 believes | nsubj |
| 10 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 believes | nsubj |
| 11 | believes | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fables | acl:relcl |
| 12 | any | any | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 believes | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 insist | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 go | advmod |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insist speech: other | present | People | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | preach speech: other | gerund | the old fables | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fable=Topic | |||||
| 3 | believe | present | the old fables | nobody nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not go | shall | I | 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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