Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 3
The teamster entered with reverence the oratorium, to thank the Almighty for his deliverance, when lo! he recognized in the figure of the Virgin his deliverer, and placed the rose drinking-cup as a costly relic before her shrine.
Who acts: teamster · What happens: enter, thank, recognize, place, deliver, figure · To what, where: oratorium, Almighty, deliverer, figure, rose drinking cup, shrine
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 (teamster), 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 teamster | det |
| 2 | teamster | teamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 reverence | case |
| 5 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 oratorium | det |
| 7 | oratorium | oratorium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thank | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 thank | mark |
| 10 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Almighty | det |
| 12 | Almighty | almighty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thank | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 deliverance | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 deliverance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thank | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 recognized | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 recognized | advmod |
| 18 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 21 recognized | discourse |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 lo | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 recognized | nsubj |
| 21 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thank | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 figure | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 figure | det |
| 24 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 recognized | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Virgin | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Virgin | det |
| 27 | Virgin | Virgin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 figure | nmod |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 deliverer | nmod:poss |
| 29 | deliverer | deliverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 recognized | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 placed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 placed | cc |
| 32 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 cup | det |
| 34 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cup | compound |
| 35 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cup | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 drinking | punct |
| 37 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 placed | obj |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 relic | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 relic | det |
| 40 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 relic | amod |
| 41 | relic | relic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 placed | obl |
| 42 | before | before | ADP | _ | 44 shrine | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 shrine | nmod:poss |
| 44 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 placed | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the teamster | the oratorium | with reverence | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme oratorium=Destination | |||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | to-infinitive | the Almighty | for teamster's deliverance | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent almighty=Theme for deliverance=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | recognize | past | teamster | teamster's deliverer | the figure of the Virgin | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deliverer=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | place | past | the teamster not said here | the rose drinking cup | Elend's shrine | as a costly relic | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cup=Theme before shrine=Destination | ||
| 5 | deliver | teamster | nom deliverance «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | figure | the Virgin | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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