Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 32
The Bürgermeister rose with official dignity, dismissed his colleagues with a wave of the hand, and the exhausted councillors were in the act of retiring, when the unhappy bridegroom rushed breathless into their midst.
Who acts: Bürgermeister, exhausted councillors, unhappy bridegroom · What happens: rise, dismiss, be, retire, rush, wave · To what, where: colleagues, act, midst, hand
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: who acts (Bürgermeister, exhausted councillors, unhappy bridegroom), 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 Bürgermeister | det |
| 2 | Bürgermeister | Bürgermeister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 dignity | case |
| 5 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dignity | amod |
| 6 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dismissed | punct |
| 8 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 colleagues | nmod:poss |
| 10 | colleagues | colleague | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dismissed | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 wave | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wave | det |
| 13 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dismissed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hand | det |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wave | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 act | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 act | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 councillors | det |
| 20 | exhausted | exhausted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 councillors | amod |
| 21 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 act | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 act | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 act | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 act | det |
| 25 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | advcl |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 retiring | mark |
| 27 | retiring | retire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 act | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 rushed | punct |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 rushed | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bridegroom | det |
| 31 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 bridegroom | amod |
| 32 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rushed | nsubj |
| 33 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 34 | breathless | breathless | ADV | _ | 33 rushed | advmod |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 midst | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 midst | nmod:poss |
| 37 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rushed | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the Bürgermeister | with official dignity | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dismiss | past | the Bürgermeister not said here | assembly's colleagues | with a wave of the hand | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colleague=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | the exhausted councillors | the act | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | retire | gerund | the exhausted councillors not said here | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | rush | past | the unhappy bridegroom | into councillors's midst result; breathless property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into midst=Result | ||||
| 6 | wave | the hand | nom wave «event 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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