Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 114
In despair he wrung his hands and besought the Virgin to aid him in his distress.
Who acts: Loud · What happens: wring, beseech, aid, distress · To what, where: hands, despair, Virgin, Loud, distress
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Loud), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 despair | case |
| 2 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrung | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wrung | nsubj |
| 4 | wrung | wring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wrung | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 besought | cc |
| 8 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrung | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Virgin | det |
| 10 | Virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 besought | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 aid | mark |
| 12 | aid | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 besought | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 aid | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 distress | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 distress | nmod:poss |
| 16 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 aid | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wring | past | Loud | Loud's hands | despair | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in despair=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | beseech | past | Loud not said here | the Virgin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | aid | to-infinitive | Loud not said here | Loud | Loud's distress | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | distress | Loud | nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=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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