Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 106

He beheld the smoking sacrificial altars, he heard the songs of the reeling, staggering heathen, and with a slow and solemn tread he climbed the mountain.

Who acts: fire, reeling · What happens: behold, hear, stagger, climb, sing · To what, where: smoking, songs, heathen, mountain

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, reeling), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beheld	nsubj
2	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smoking	det
4	smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beheld	obj
5	sacrificial	sacrificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 altars	amod
6	altars	altar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 beheld	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beheld	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 songs	det
11	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heard	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 reeling	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reeling	det
14	reeling	reeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 songs	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 staggering	punct
16	staggering	stagger	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 heard	conj
17	heathen	heathen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 staggering	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 climbed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 climbed	cc
20	with	with	ADP	_	25 tread	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tread	det
22	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tread	amod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 solemn	cc
24	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 slow	conj
25	tread	tread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 climbed	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 climbed	nsubj
27	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beheld	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mountain	det
29	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 climbed	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	behold	past	fire	the smoking	sacrificial altars obj	tree rules
2	hear	past	fire	the songs of the reeling		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus
3	stagger	gerund	fire not said here	heathen		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heathen=Experiencer
4	climb	past	fire	the mountain	with a slow tread	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme
5	sing		the reeling			nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 106

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 106