Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 65
The miner cannot gaze enough at the marvellous sight, crosses and recrosses himself; the monk kneels at the golden altar and says an Ave Maria.
Who acts: miner, monk, Ave Maria · What happens: not gaze, cross, recross, kneel, say · To what, where: miner, golden altar · 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 (miner, monk, Ave Maria), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 miner | det |
| 2 | miner | miner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gaze | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 gaze | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 gaze | advmod |
| 5 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 gaze | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sight | det |
| 9 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sight | amod |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gaze | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crosses | punct |
| 12 | crosses | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gaze | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 recrosses | cc |
| 14 | recrosses | recross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 crosses | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 recrosses | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 kneels | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 monk | det |
| 18 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kneels | nsubj |
| 19 | kneels | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gaze | parataxis |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 altar | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 altar | det |
| 22 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 altar | amod |
| 23 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kneels | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 says | cc |
| 25 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 kneels | conj |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 Maria | det |
| 27 | Ave | Ave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Maria | compound |
| 28 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 says | nsubj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gaze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not gaze | can | the miner | at the marvellous sight; enough property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cross | present | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | recross | present | miner | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | kneel | present | the monk | the golden altar | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at altar=Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | a Ave Maria | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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