Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 25
"No, by force nothing can be done!" echoed the assembly as one man.
What happens: do, echo · To what, where: nothing, assembly
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 done | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 done | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nothing | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 nothing | case |
| 5 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nothing | compound |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 done | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 done | aux:pass |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 echoed | advcl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 done | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 done | punct |
| 12 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 assembly | det |
| 14 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 echoed | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 man | nummod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 echoed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 echoed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can · passive | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | echo | past | the assembly | as one man | vn sound_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location assembly=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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