Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 31
"If you are content with the doctrine of man's descent from an ape, originally, according to your own argument, from a frog!
Who acts: you, man, your · What happens: be, accord, indoctrinate, descend, argue · To what, where: descent, ape
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, man, your), 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 | _ | 5 content | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 content | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 content | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 content | cop |
| 5 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 doctrine | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 doctrine | det |
| 8 | doctrine | doctrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 content | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 descent | case |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 descent | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 man | case |
| 12 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doctrine | nmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 ape | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ape | det |
| 15 | ape | ape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doctrine | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 originally | punct |
| 17 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 5 content | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 argument | punct |
| 19 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 argument | case |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 according | fixed |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 argument | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 argument | amod |
| 23 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 content | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 frog | punct |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 frog | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 frog | det |
| 27 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 argument | conj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | with the doctrine of man's descent from a ape; your own argument and a frog parataxis; content property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accord in a quote | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | indoctrinate in a quote | man's descent | a ape | nom doctrine «cognition transitive»: of=patient from=place | |||||
| 4 | descend in a quote | man | nom descent «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | argue in a quote | your | nom argument «communication transitive»: 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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