Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 81
Thou hast often told me that only love makes happy; and I have found a love deep and pure, and could shout for joy; a heart, a knightly heart is mine.
Who acts: love, I, knightly heart · What happens: tell, make, find, shout, be · To what, where: Thou, me, love, mine · 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 (love, I, knightly heart), 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 | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 told | advmod |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 makes | mark |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 love | advmod |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 makes | nsubj |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | advcl |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | aux |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 told | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 love | det |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 found | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pure | cc |
| 20 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 deep | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shout | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shout | cc |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 shout | aux |
| 24 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 found | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 joy | case |
| 26 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shout | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 heart | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 heart | det |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 mine | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 heart | det |
| 32 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 heart | amod |
| 33 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mine | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 mine | cop |
| 35 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 heart | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | Thou | me | a heart obl; often property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic | |||
| 2 | make | present | love | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | find | present · perfect | I | a love | deep property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Topic | |||
| 4 | shout speech: express | could | I not said here | for joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | a knightly heart | mine | 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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