Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 117
Awful thunders rolled, lightnings in fiery serpents cut their way through the heavens and mountains, and a tremendous flood swept down from the Brocken, destroying all in its course.
Who acts: Awful thunders, lightnings, tremendous flood · What happens: roll, cut, sweep down, destroy · To what, where: way, heavens, Brocken, course
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 (Awful thunders, lightnings, tremendous flood), 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 | Awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thunders | amod |
| 2 | thunders | thunder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rolled | nsubj |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lightnings | punct |
| 5 | lightnings | lightning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cut | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 serpents | case |
| 7 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 serpents | amod |
| 8 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lightnings | nmod |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rolled | parataxis |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | obj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 heavens | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heavens | det |
| 14 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cut | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mountains | cc |
| 16 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heavens | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 swept | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 swept | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 flood | det |
| 20 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 flood | amod |
| 21 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 swept | nsubj |
| 22 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rolled | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 swept | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Brocken | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Brocken | det |
| 26 | Brocken | Brocken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 swept | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 destroying | punct |
| 28 | destroying | destroy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 swept | advcl |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 32 course | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 course | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 course | nmod:poss |
| 32 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 destroying | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | past | Awful thunders | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cut | present | lightnings in fiery serpents | lightnings's way | the heavens and mountains | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | |||
| 3 | sweep down | past | a tremendous flood | the Brocken | down property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from brocken=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | destroy | gerund | a tremendous flood not said here | Brocken's course | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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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