Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 115
Walpurgisnacht arrived, the widow stood on the balcony of her house and invoked the demons and witches, who swept through the night, which rested black as destruction on the mountains, heavy as the day of wrath and vengeance.
Who acts: Walpurgisnacht, widow, demons · What happens: arrive, stand, invoke, sweep, rest · To what, where: balcony, demons, mountains
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Walpurgisnacht, widow, demons), 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 | Walpurgisnacht | Walpurgisnacht | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 widow | det |
| 5 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arrived | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 balcony | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 balcony | det |
| 9 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 balcony | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 invoked | cc |
| 14 | invoked | invoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 demons | det |
| 16 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 invoked | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 witches | cc |
| 18 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 demons | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 swept | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 swept | nsubj |
| 21 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 demons | acl:relcl |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 night | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 night | det |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swept | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rested | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 rested | nsubj |
| 27 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 demons | parataxis |
| 28 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 rested | xcomp |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 destruction | case |
| 30 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rested | obl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 mountains | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 mountains | det |
| 33 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 rested | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 heavy | punct |
| 35 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 rested | conj |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 day | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 day | det |
| 38 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 heavy | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 wrath | case |
| 40 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 day | nmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 vengeance | cc |
| 42 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wrath | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Walpurgisnacht | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | the widow | the balcony of Walpurgisnacht's house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on balcony=Location | ||||
| 3 | invoke | past | the widow not said here | the demons and witches | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sweep | past | the demons and witches | night | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rest | past | the demons and witches | the mountains | as destruction; black property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mountain=Location |
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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