Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 31
And when morning dawned, the sun illuminated only a shapeless mass of ruins, and on the ruins the conquerors knelt and thanked heaven for the given strength.
Who acts: sun, conquerors · What happens: dawn, illuminate, kneel, thank, give · To what, where: sun, shapeless mass, ruins, heaven
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 (sun, conquerors), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 dawned | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 dawned | advmod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dawned | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sun | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dawned | obl |
| 8 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sun | acl |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 mass | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mass | det |
| 11 | shapeless | shapeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mass | amod |
| 12 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 illuminated | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ruins | case |
| 14 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mass | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knelt | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 knelt | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 ruins | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ruins | det |
| 19 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 knelt | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 conquerors | det |
| 21 | conquerors | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 knelt | nsubj |
| 22 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dawned | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 thanked | cc |
| 24 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 knelt | conj |
| 25 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thanked | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 strength | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 strength | det |
| 28 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 strength | amod |
| 29 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thanked | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | participle | the sun | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | illuminate | participle | the sun not said here | a shapeless mass of ruins | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Destination | ||||
| 3 | kneel | past | the conquerors | the ruins | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ruin=Location | ||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | past | the conquerors not said here | heaven | for the given strength | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme for strength=Attribute | |||
| 5 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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