Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 2

One seated himself here, another there, another leaned on his spear, and all listened in silence and attention to what the strange figure might have to say to them.

Who acts: One, strange figure · What happens: seat, lean, listen, have, say · To what, where: peculiar, leaned spear, all, silence · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (One, strange figure), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 seated	nsubj
2	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 seated	obj
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 seated	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spear	punct
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 spear	nmod:poss
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 another	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spear	punct
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 spear	det
10	leaned	lean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 spear	amod
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 spear	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 spear	nmod:poss
13	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seated	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 listened	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 listened	cc
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 listened	nsubj:pass
17	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seated	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 silence	case
19	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 listened	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 attention	cc
21	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 silence	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 what	case
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 listened	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 figure	det
25	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 figure	amod
26	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 what	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 say	mark
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 have	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 say	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seat	past	One	peculiar		another's leaned spear; here		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
2	lean	participle						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	listen	participle · passive		all		silence and attention	what obl	tree rules
4	have	might	the strange figure					tree rules
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the strange figure not said here		silence			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 2