Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 43
One morning a farmer rode before sunrise from Ballenstedt to Quedlinburg, to offer prayers and obtain absolution in the convent church, only just founded by the Kaiserin Matilda--for in Ballenstedt there was neither church nor pater.
Who acts: farmer rode · What happens: offer, obtain, found · To what, where: prayers, absolution, convent church
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 (farmer rode), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 offer | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rode | det |
| 4 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | compound |
| 5 | rode | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 offer | nsubj |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 sunrise | case |
| 7 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Ballenstedt | case |
| 9 | Ballenstedt | Ballenstedt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sunrise | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Quedlinburg | case |
| 11 | Quedlinburg | Quedlinburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ballenstedt | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 offer | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 offer | mark |
| 14 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 offer | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 obtain | cc |
| 17 | obtain | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 offer | conj |
| 18 | absolution | absolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 obtain | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 church | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 church | det |
| 21 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 church | compound |
| 22 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 obtain | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 founded | punct |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 founded | advmod |
| 25 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 founded | advmod |
| 26 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 offer | conj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 Matilda | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Matilda | det |
| 29 | Kaiserin | Kaiserin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Matilda | compound |
| 30 | Matilda | Matilda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 founded | obl |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 Ballenstedt | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 Ballenstedt | case |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Ballenstedt | case |
| 34 | Ballenstedt | Ballenstedt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 founded | obl |
| 35 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 36 was | expl |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 Ballenstedt | acl:relcl |
| 37 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 38 church | cc:preconj |
| 38 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 was | nsubj |
| 39 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 40 pater | cc |
| 40 | pater | pater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 church | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | to-infinitive | a farmer rode before sunrise from Ballenstedt to Quedlinburg | prayers | morning | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme | |||
| 2 | obtain | present | a farmer rode before sunrise from Ballenstedt to Quedlinburg not said here | absolution | the convent church | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset absolution=Theme | |||
| 3 | found | participle | a farmer rode before sunrise from Ballenstedt to Quedlinburg not said here | by the Kaiserin Matilda; for Ballenstedt | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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