Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 58
At last, one sultry summer afternoon, he threw himself down under a tree, and soon sank into a deep sleep.
Who acts: One · What happens: throw down, sink · To what, where: One, tree, deep sleep
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 (One), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 afternoon | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 afternoon | nummod |
| 5 | sultry | sultry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 afternoon | amod |
| 6 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 afternoon | compound |
| 7 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 afternoon | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 threw | nsubj |
| 10 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 threw | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 threw | compound:prt |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sank | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sank | cc |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 sank | advmod |
| 19 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 threw | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 sleep | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sleep | det |
| 22 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sleep | amod |
| 23 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sank | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw down | past | One | One | a tree | afternoon | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme under tree=Destination | ||
| 2 | sink | past | One not said here | a deep sleep | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient 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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