Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 36
Wodan becomes the foul fiend, then the godless Hunter, and the Wandering Jew.
Who acts: Wodan · What happens: become · To what, where: foul fiend
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 (Wodan), 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 | Wodan | Wodan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 becomes | nsubj |
| 2 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fiend | det |
| 4 | foul | foul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fiend | amod |
| 5 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 becomes | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Hunter | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 Hunter | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hunter | det |
| 9 | godless | godless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Hunter | amod |
| 10 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fiend | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Jew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Jew | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Jew | det |
| 14 | Wandering | Wandering | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Jew | compound |
| 15 | Jew | Jew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 becomes | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 becomes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | Wodan | the foul fiend | the Wandering Jew parataxis | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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