Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 32
Great were the jubilee and gratitude of the citizens when they saw the fallen fortress, and great their praise of the victors.
Who acts: conquerors · What happens: be, see, fall, praise · To what, where: Great jubilee, fallen fortress, victors
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 (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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jubilee | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jubilee | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 jubilee | det |
| 4 | jubilee | jubilee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gratitude | cc |
| 6 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jubilee | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 citizens | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 citizens | det |
| 9 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gratitude | nmod |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 citizens | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fortress | det |
| 14 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 fortress | amod |
| 15 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 praise | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 praise | cc |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 praise | amod |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 praise | nmod:poss |
| 20 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jubilee | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 victors | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 victors | det |
| 23 | victors | victor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 praise | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jubilee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Great jubilee and gratitude of the citizens and conquerors's great praise of the victors | gratitude of the citizens conj; conquerors's great praise of the victors conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | conquerors = conqueror | the fallen fortress | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fortress=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | praise | conquerors = conqueror | the victors | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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