Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 31
At last one day, as the father gazes from the battlements of the castle, he sees people approaching bearing the Maien,[2] hears their shouts of joy, and in their midst beholds his lost Rosamund, decked as Queen of the May!
Who acts: Ritter, people · What happens: gaze, see, approach, bear, hear, shout · To what, where: people, Maien, lost Rosamund, midst · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ritter, people), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | compound |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gazes | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 father | det |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gazes | obl |
| 9 | gazes | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 battlements | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 battlements | det |
| 12 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gazes | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 castle | det |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 battlements | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sees | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sees | nsubj |
| 18 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gazes | conj |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sees | obj |
| 20 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 sees | xcomp |
| 21 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 approaching | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Maien | det |
| 23 | Maien | Maien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 bearing | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hears | punct |
| 25 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 26 2 | punct |
| 26 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 hears | discourse |
| 27 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 26 2 | punct |
| 28 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sees | conj |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 shouts | nmod:poss |
| 30 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 hears | ccomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 joy | case |
| 32 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shouts | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 beholds | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 beholds | cc |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 midst | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 midst | nmod:poss |
| 37 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 beholds | obl |
| 38 | beholds | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gazes | conj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 Rosamund | nmod:poss |
| 40 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 Rosamund | amod |
| 41 | Rosamund | Rosamund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 beholds | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 decked | punct |
| 43 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 beholds | conj |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 Queen | case |
| 45 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 decked | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 May | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 May | det |
| 48 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Queen | nmod |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 gazes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | present | day | as the father; from the battlements of the castle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from battlement=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present | Ritter | people | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | approach | gerund | people not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bear | gerund | people not said here | the Maien | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maien=Patient | ||||
| 5 | hear | present | Ritter not said here | 2 discourse | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | shout speech: express | present | of joy; people nmod:poss | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | behold | present | Ritter's lost Rosamund | people's midst | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rosamund=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | deck | participle | as Queen of the May | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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