Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 40
We had only been married three weeks when France declared war, and my joy was broken for ever.
Who acts: We, France, my · What happens: have, be, declare, break, joy · To what, where: married three weeks, war, joy
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 (We, France, my), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 weeks | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 weeks | cop |
| 5 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 weeks | amod |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 weeks | nummod |
| 7 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 declared | advmod |
| 9 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 declared | nsubj |
| 10 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | advcl |
| 11 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 declared | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 broken | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 broken | cc |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 joy | nmod:poss |
| 15 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 broken | aux:pass |
| 17 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 ever | case |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 broken | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | We | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | participle | married three weeks | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | France | war | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | break | past · passive | my joy | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | joy | my | nom joy «feeling 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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