Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 39
"But the blood," he said meditatively--"the blood that I must give him both to eat and drink; the blood that shall neither be of man nor beast--whence shall it come?"
Who acts: Weidemann, blood · What happens: say, give, eat, drink, be, come · To what, where: both, Weidemann · 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 (Weidemann, blood), 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 blood | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 blood | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blood | det |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 blood | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 blood | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | meditatively | meditatively | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 blood | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 blood | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 blood | det |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 give | nsubj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 blood | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 give | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 eat | mark |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 give | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drink | cc |
| 23 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 eat | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 blood | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 blood | det |
| 26 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 come | nsubj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 man | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 man | aux |
| 29 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 man | nsubj |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 man | cop |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 man | case |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 blood | acl:relcl |
| 33 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 34 beast | cc |
| 34 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 man | conj |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 come | punct |
| 36 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 come | advmod |
| 37 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 come | aux |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 come | nsubj |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 39 come | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Weidemann | the blood ccomp; meditatively property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | must | the blood | both | Weidemann | I nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient both=Theme | ||
| 3 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | the blood not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink in a quote | infinitive | the blood not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | shall | the blood | of man nor beast; beast conj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come in a quote | shall | the blood | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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