Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 75
Mr. Samper wrote declining any further correspondence, and informed them the post and the law were open.
Who acts: Samper, post · What happens: write, decline, inform, be · To what, where: further correspondence, letters · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Samper, post), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Samper | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Samper | Samper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | declining | decline | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 wrote | xcomp |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 correspondence | det |
| 6 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 correspondence | amod |
| 7 | correspondence | correspondence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 declining | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 informed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 informed | cc |
| 10 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrote | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 informed | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 post | det |
| 13 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 open | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 law | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 law | det |
| 16 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 post | conj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 open | cop |
| 18 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 informed | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Samper Mr. | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | decline | gerund | Samper Mr. not said here | any further correspondence | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent correspondence=Theme | ||||
| 3 | inform speech: other | past | Samper Mr. not said here | letters = letter | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the post and the law | open property | tree rules |
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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