Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 129
_" cried the fisherman decidedly, "I have not a wish but to remain what I am my life long."
Who acts: _, I · What happens: cry, not wish, remain, be · To what, where: fisherman, life · 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 (_, I), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fisherman | det |
| 5 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obj |
| 6 | decidedly | decidedly | ADV | _ | 3 cried | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wish | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 wish | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wish | det |
| 13 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | parataxis |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 remain | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 remain | mark |
| 16 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wish | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 life | nsubj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 life | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 life | cop |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 remain | ccomp |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 life | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | _ | the fisherman | decidedly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not wish | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | remain | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | my life | what nsubj; I nsubj; my nmod:poss; long 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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