Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 108
"I have obeyed your command, gestrenger Herr--your Lordship--and in case of the worst have buried the treasures in the small vault, three times seven paces from the tower westward, and three times seven paces from the entrance gates to the south.
Who acts: door, your · What happens: obey, bury, command · To what, where: command, worst, small vault · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, your), 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 | _ | 4 obeyed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 obeyed | aux |
| 4 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 command | nmod:poss |
| 6 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obeyed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gestrenger | punct |
| 8 | gestrenger | gestrenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 command | conj |
| 9 | Herr | Herr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gestrenger | appos |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lordship | punct |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Lordship | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Lordship | lordship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 command | conj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 case | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 case | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 case | case |
| 16 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obeyed | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 buried | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 worst | det |
| 19 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 buried | aux |
| 21 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 case | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 treasures | det |
| 23 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 buried | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 vault | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 vault | det |
| 26 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 vault | amod |
| 27 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 buried | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 times | punct |
| 29 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 times | nummod |
| 30 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 vault | appos |
| 31 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 paces | nummod |
| 32 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 times | conj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 tower | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tower | det |
| 35 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 paces | nmod |
| 36 | westward | westward | ADV | _ | 35 tower | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 paces | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 paces | cc |
| 39 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 times | nummod |
| 40 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 paces | nmod:unmarked |
| 41 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 paces | nummod |
| 42 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 obeyed | obl |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 gates | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 gates | det |
| 45 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 gates | compound |
| 46 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 paces | nmod |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 south | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 south | det |
| 49 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 gates | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey in a quote | present · perfect | a door = door | your command and gestrenger and your Lordship | seven paces three times from the entrance gates to the south obl; case parataxis | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | |||
| 2 | bury in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the worst | the small vault | the treasures obj | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme treasure=Destination | |||
| 3 | command in a quote | your | nom command «communication 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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