Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 5
His avarice awoke; he hastened home, and demanded to know the cause of Tidian's wealth.
Who acts: avarice · What happens: awake, hasten, demand, know, cause · To what, where: cause, wealth
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 (avarice), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 avarice | nmod:poss |
| 2 | avarice | avarice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 hastened | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hastened | nsubj |
| 6 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 hastened | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 demanded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 demanded | cc |
| 10 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 demanded | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cause | det |
| 14 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 know | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wealth | case |
| 16 | Tidian | Tidian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Tidian | case |
| 18 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cause | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | shepherd's avarice | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hasten | past | avarice | home property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | demand speech: request | past | shepherd's avarice not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | shepherd's avarice not said here | the cause of Tidian's wealth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | cause | Tidian's wealth | nom cause «event transitive»: of=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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