Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 76
A name given to the devil; since when he appeared in disguise to deceive people, he is said to have used this hypocritical expression.
Who acts: name · What happens: give, appear, deceive, say, use · To what, where: name, disguise, people, hypocritical expression · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (name), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 name | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 devil | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 devil | det |
| 6 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obl:agent |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 appeared | punct |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 11 appeared | mark |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 appeared | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 appeared | nsubj |
| 11 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 disguise | case |
| 13 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appeared | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 deceive | mark |
| 15 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 appeared | advcl |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 deceive | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | aux:pass |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 appeared | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 used | mark |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 used | aux |
| 23 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 said | xcomp |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 expression | det |
| 25 | hypocritical | hypocritical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 expression | amod |
| 26 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 used | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | a name not said here | the devil obl:agent | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | a name | disguise | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in disguise=Location | ||||
| 3 | deceive | to-infinitive | a name not said here | people | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present · passive | name | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | use | to-infinitive · perfect | this hypocritical expression | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Patient |
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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