Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 42
Only he who was consecrated to God could approach the Gegensteine unharmed.
What happens: consecrate, approach · To what, where: Many, God, Gegensteine
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: 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 consecrated | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 consecrated | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 consecrated | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 consecrated | aux:pass |
| 5 | consecrated | consecrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 approach | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 God | case |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 consecrated | obl |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 approach | aux |
| 9 | approach | approach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Gegensteine | det |
| 11 | Gegensteine | Gegensteine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 approach | obj |
| 12 | unharmed | unharmed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Gegensteine | amod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 approach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consecrate | past · passive | Many | God | who nsubj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result | |||
| 2 | approach | could | the Gegensteine | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gegensteine=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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