Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 14
Rejoiced to see the boar stretched at his feet, he kicked the tusk with violence, exclaiming, "Thou shalt not yet kill me!"
Who acts: boar, Thou · What happens: rejoice, see, stretch, kick, exclaim, not kill · To what, where: boar, feet, tusk · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boar, Thou), 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 | Rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 kicked | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 see | mark |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Rejoiced | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boar | det |
| 5 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 boar | acl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stretched | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rejoiced | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kicked | nsubj |
| 12 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tusk | det |
| 14 | tusk | tusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kicked | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 violence | case |
| 16 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kicked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 exclaiming | punct |
| 18 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 kicked | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 kill | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 kill | punct |
| 21 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 kill | nsubj |
| 22 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 25 kill | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 kill | advmod |
| 24 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 25 kill | advmod |
| 25 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 exclaiming | ccomp |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 kill | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 kill | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 exclaiming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | participle | boar not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | boar not said here | the boar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boar=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stretch | participle | the boar not said here | boar's feet | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | kick | past | boar | the tusk | with violence | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tusk=Patient with violence=Instrument | |||
| 5 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | boar not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | not kill in a quote | shall | Thou | boar | yet | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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