Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 26
Inexpressible rage filled the hearts of the citizens at the news of this violence, and they agreed to unite the coming week for the destruction of the castle.
Who acts: Inexpressible rage, hearts · What happens: fill, agree, unite, come, destroy · To what, where: hearts, castle
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 (Inexpressible rage, hearts), 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 | Inexpressible | inexpressible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rage | amod |
| 2 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hearts | det |
| 5 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 filled | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 citizens | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 citizens | det |
| 8 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hearts | nmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 news | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 news | det |
| 11 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 citizens | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 violence | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 violence | det |
| 14 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 news | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 agreed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 agreed | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 agreed | nsubj |
| 18 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 unite | mark |
| 20 | unite | unite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 agreed | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 week | det |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 week | amod |
| 23 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 unite | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 destruction | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 destruction | det |
| 26 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 unite | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 castle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 castle | det |
| 29 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 destruction | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | Inexpressible rage | the hearts of the citizens at the news of this violence | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | hearts = heart | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | unite not said to happen | to-infinitive | hearts = heart not said here | week | for the destruction of the castle | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | destroy | the castle | nom destruction «act 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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