Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 150
She exclaims in anguish, "It is my father, but I do not answer, for he has disowned me his child.
Who acts: voice, anguish, father · What happens: exclaim, be, not answer, disown · To what, where: anguish, father, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (voice, anguish, father), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 exclaims | nsubj |
| 2 | exclaims | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 anguish | case |
| 4 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 exclaims | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 father | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 father | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 father | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 father | cop |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 exclaims | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 answer | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 answer | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 answer | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 answer | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 answer | advmod |
| 16 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 exclaims | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 disowned | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 disowned | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 disowned | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 disowned | aux |
| 21 | disowned | disown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 answer | advcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 disowned | obj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 child | nmod:poss |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 disowned | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 exclaims | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | present | voice | anguish | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | anguish | my father | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not answer speech: assert in a quote | present · do-support | voice | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | disown in a quote | present · perfect | father | voice | father's child 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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