Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 4
The proclamation of the council penetrated to his criminal cell, and he recalled this spring to his memory, and felt a wild longing through it to regain his freedom.
Who acts: proclamation · What happens: penetrate, recall, feel, regain, proclaim · To what, where: proclamation, memory, wild longing, longing, freedom, council
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 (proclamation), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 proclamation | det |
| 2 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recalled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 council | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 council | det |
| 5 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 proclamation | nmod |
| 6 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 proclamation | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 cell | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cell | nmod:poss |
| 9 | criminal | criminal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cell | amod |
| 10 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 penetrated | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 recalled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 recalled | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 recalled | nsubj |
| 14 | recalled | recall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 spring | det |
| 16 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recalled | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 memory | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 memory | nmod:poss |
| 19 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recalled | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 felt | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 felt | cc |
| 22 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 recalled | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 longing | det |
| 24 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 longing | amod |
| 25 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 felt | obj |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 felt | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 regain | mark |
| 29 | regain | regain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 felt | advcl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 31 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 regain | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 recalled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | penetrate | participle | the proclamation of the council not said here | to proclamation's criminal cell | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | recall | past | the proclamation of the council | proclamation's memory | spring | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to memory=Destination | |||
| 3 | feel | past | the proclamation of the council not said here | a wild longing | longing | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent longing=Theme through it=Location | |||
| 4 | regain | to-infinitive | the proclamation of the council not said here | proclamation's freedom | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme | ||||
| 5 | proclaim | the council | nom proclamation «communication 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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