Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 72
They keep up the story of my wanderings, but I have stood here in this tree for ages, shivering or roasting."
Who acts: ideas, I, my · What happens: keep up, stand, shiver, roast, wander · To what, where: story, tree
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 (ideas, I, my), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 keep | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keep | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wanderings | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wanderings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 story | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stood | aux |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 keep | conj |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 stood | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 ages | case |
| 19 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stood | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shivering | punct |
| 21 | shivering | shiver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 stood | conj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 roasting | cc |
| 23 | roasting | roast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 shivering | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keep | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep up | present | ideas = idea | the story of my wanderings | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | present · perfect | I | this tree; here | for ages | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | |||
| 3 | shiver | gerund | I not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | roast | gerund | I not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | wander | my | nom wandering «act 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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