Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 32
I deny its truth, and claim mine from an eternal, omnipotent and holy Creator, and personal Father, not simply an eviges Sein--eternal state of being--but something infinitely and incomprehensibly more exalted."
Who acts: I · What happens: deny, claim, exalt · To what, where: truth, mine, eternal
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 deny | nsubj |
| 2 | deny | deny | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 truth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 deny | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 claim | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 claim | cc |
| 7 | claim | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 deny | parataxis |
| 8 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 claim | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 eternal | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 eternal | det |
| 11 | eternal | eternal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 claim | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 omnipotent | punct |
| 13 | omnipotent | omnipotent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eternal | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Creator | cc |
| 15 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Creator | amod |
| 16 | Creator | Creator | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 eternal | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Father | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Father | cc |
| 19 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Father | amod |
| 20 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 deny | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 eviges | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 eviges | advmod |
| 23 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 25 eviges | advmod |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 eviges | det |
| 25 | eviges | evige | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Father | appos |
| 26 | Sein | Sein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 eviges | flat |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 state | punct |
| 28 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 state | amod |
| 29 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eviges | conj |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 31 being | mark |
| 31 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 state | acl |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 something | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 something | cc |
| 34 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 Father | appos |
| 35 | infinitely | infinitely | ADV | _ | 34 something | advmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 exalted | cc |
| 37 | incomprehensibly | incomprehensibly | ADV | _ | 39 exalted | advmod |
| 38 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 exalted | advmod |
| 39 | exalted | exalt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 infinitely | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 deny | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 deny | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deny | present | I | argument's truth | personal Father parataxis | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent truth=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | claim speech: other | present | mine | a eternal and omnipotent and holy Creator | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent my=Topic | ||||
| 3 | exalt | past | I not said here | incomprehensibly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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