Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 102
Already it rustles in the wood, already his tread resounds on the rocks; he climbs the mountain.
Who acts: grief, tread, wood · What happens: rustle, resound, climb, tread · To what, where: wood, rocks, mountain
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grief, tread, wood), 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 | Already | already | ADV | _ | 3 rustles | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rustles | nsubj |
| 3 | rustles | rustle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wood | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rustles | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 resounds | punct |
| 8 | already | already | ADV | _ | 11 resounds | advmod |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tread | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tread | tread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resounds | nsubj |
| 11 | resounds | resound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rustles | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 rocks | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rocks | det |
| 14 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 resounds | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 climbs | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 climbs | nsubj |
| 17 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rustles | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountain | det |
| 19 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 climbs | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rustles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rustle | present | grief | the wood | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | ||||
| 2 | resound | present | wood's tread | the rocks | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location | ||||
| 3 | climb | present | tread | the mountain | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tread | wood | nom tread «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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