Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 37
The taste and passion for the wonderful and mysterious are too strong in the human mind to permit of these majestic rocks being without their Sage.
Who acts: taste · What happens: be, permit · To what, where: human mind
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (taste), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 taste | det |
| 2 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strong | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 passion | cc |
| 4 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 taste | conj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 wonderful | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wonderful | det |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 taste | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mysterious | cc |
| 9 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wonderful | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 strong | cop |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 strong | advmod |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 mind | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mind | det |
| 15 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mind | amod |
| 16 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strong | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 permit | mark |
| 18 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 strong | advcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 rocks | case |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 rocks | det |
| 21 | majestic | majestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rocks | amod |
| 22 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 permit | obl |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 rocks | acl |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 Sage | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Sage | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Sage | sage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 being | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the taste for the wonderful and passion | the human mind | strong property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | permit | to-infinitive | the taste for the wonderful and passion not said here | of this majestic rocks | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer |
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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