Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 35
Thou art called Weidemann,[3] because thy ancestor was ranger to the knights of the Treseburg; and dost thou not say thou hast never shed blood?
Who acts: ancestor · What happens: call, be, do, not say, not shed · To what, where: Thou, ranger · 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 (ancestor), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | Weidemann | Weidemann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 3 | punct |
| 6 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 7 3 | punct |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Weidemann | appos |
| 8 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 3 | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 ranger | mark |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 ancestor | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ancestor | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ranger | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ranger | cop |
| 13 | ranger | ranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 knights | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 knights | det |
| 16 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ranger | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Treseburg | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Treseburg | det |
| 19 | Treseburg | Treseburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 knights | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 dost | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dost | cc |
| 22 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 dost | obj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 say | advmod |
| 25 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 dost | advcl |
| 26 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 shed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 shed | aux |
| 28 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 shed | advmod |
| 29 | shed | shed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 say | ccomp |
| 30 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shed | obj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | Thou | Weidemann xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | thy ancestor | ranger | to the knights of the Treseburg | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do | present | thou | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | not shed | present · perfect · passive | thou | blood obj | 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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