Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 43
"My sister Olga and I were married on the same day to two brothers, German officers, just three weeks before the commencement of the war.
What happens: marry · To what, where: sister
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: 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 | _ | 8 married | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 married | nsubj |
| 4 | Olga | Olga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | appos |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 I | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sister | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 married | aux:pass |
| 8 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 day | amod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 married | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 brothers | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 brothers | nummod |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 married | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 officers | punct |
| 17 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 officers | amod |
| 18 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brothers | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 weeks | punct |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 weeks | advmod |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 weeks | nummod |
| 22 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brothers | conj |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 commencement | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 commencement | det |
| 25 | commencement | commencement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 weeks | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 war | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 war | det |
| 28 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 commencement | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry in a quote | past · passive | My sister I | day | to two brothers and German officers and three weeks before the commencement of the war | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to brother=Co-Patient |
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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