Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 46
Resistance was useless; he could not free himself from the powerful arms of the disguised soldier.
Who acts: Resistance, Arno · What happens: be, not be, disguise · To what, where: Arno, powerful arms
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 (Resistance, Arno), 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 | Resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 useless | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 useless | cop |
| 3 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 free | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 free | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 free | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 free | advmod |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 useless | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 free | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 arms | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 arms | det |
| 12 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 arms | amod |
| 13 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 free | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 soldier | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 soldier | det |
| 16 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 soldier | amod |
| 17 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arms | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 useless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Resistance | useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not can | could | Arno | Arno | the powerful arms of the disguised soldier | tree rules | |||
| 3 | disguise | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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