Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 14
Papal bulls gave indulgences for forty days to all who prayed at, and brought gifts to, the shrine.
Who acts: Papal bulls · What happens: give, pray, bring · To what, where: indulgences, all, gifts
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Papal bulls), 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 | Papal | papal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bulls | amod |
| 2 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | indulgences | indulgence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 gave | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 prayed | nsubj |
| 11 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 all | acl:relcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 prayed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 16 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brought | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 brought | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shrine | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shrine | det |
| 20 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Papal bulls | indulgences | all | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent indulgence=Theme to all=Recipient | ||
| 2 | pray | past | who nsubj | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | Papal bulls not said here | gifts | the shrine obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=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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