Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 74
The following day Mr. Samper received a letter from the Mac Stabs, claiming damages for a broken Sèvres vase and an injured piano, amounting to four pounds--all, of course, absolutely false.
Who acts: following day · What happens: follow, receive, claim, break, injure, amount · To what, where: letter, Mac Stabs, damages
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 (following day), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 received | nsubj |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Samper | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Samper | Samper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 day | appos |
| 6 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 letter | det |
| 8 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 received | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Stabs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Stabs | det |
| 11 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Stabs | compound |
| 12 | Stabs | Stab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 letter | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 claiming | punct |
| 14 | claiming | claim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 received | advcl |
| 15 | damages | damage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 claiming | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 vase | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 vase | det |
| 18 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 vase | amod |
| 19 | Sèvres | Sèvres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 vase | compound |
| 20 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 claiming | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 piano | cc |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 piano | det |
| 23 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 piano | amod |
| 24 | piano | piano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 vase | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 amounting | punct |
| 26 | amounting | amount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 claiming | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 pounds | case |
| 28 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 pounds | nummod |
| 29 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 amounting | obl |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 all | punct |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 pounds | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 course | punct |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 course | case |
| 34 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 amounting | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 false | punct |
| 36 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 37 false | advmod |
| 37 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 amounting | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | receive | past | the following day | a letter | the Mac Stabs | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent letter=Theme from stab=Source | |||
| 3 | claim speech: other | gerund | the following day not said here | damages | for a broken Sèvres vase and a injured piano | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent damage=Topic | |||
| 4 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | injure | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | amount | gerund | the following day not said here | to four pounds; of course | vn register-54.1-1 «NP V PP.value»: agent=Theme to pound=Value |
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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