Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 61
Stubborn is the conflict, surrounded and shut in, his position seems terrible, and the onlooking Huns cry out, "Shall we hasten to his aid?"
Who acts: Stubborn conflict, onlooking Huns, we · What happens: be, surround, shut in, seem, onlook, cry out · To what, where: Stubborn conflict, aid · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Stubborn conflict, onlooking Huns, we), 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 | Stubborn | stubborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 conflict | amod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 conflict | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 conflict | det |
| 4 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seems | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 surrounded | punct |
| 6 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 conflict | acl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shut | cc |
| 8 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 surrounded | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 shut | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seems | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 position | nmod:poss |
| 12 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seems | nsubj |
| 13 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seems | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cry | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cry | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Huns | det |
| 18 | onlooking | onlook | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 Huns | amod |
| 19 | Huns | Hun | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 cry | nsubj |
| 20 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 seems | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 cry | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hasten | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 hasten | punct |
| 24 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 hasten | aux |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 hasten | nsubj |
| 26 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seems | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 aid | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 aid | nmod:poss |
| 29 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hasten | obl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 hasten | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 hasten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Stubborn conflict | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | surround | participle | the Stubborn conflict not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shut in | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | seem | present | the Stubborn conflict | conflict's position nsubj; terrible property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | onlook | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | cry out speech: express | present | the onlooking Huns | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | hasten in a quote | shall | we | conflict's aid | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to aid=Destination |
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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