Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 25
Romar inquired after the descent of his beloved, and turned pale as he discovered that she was a nymph, and the daughter of the Berggeist, so hostile to his race, and a river goddess, and dwelt in the neighbouring mountain lake.
Who acts: Romar, suspicion · What happens: inquire, turn, discover, be, dwell, neighbour · To what, where: river goddess, nymph, neighbouring mountain lake
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 (Romar, suspicion), 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 | Romar | Romar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 inquired | nsubj |
| 2 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 descent | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 descent | det |
| 5 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 inquired | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 beloved | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beloved | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 descent | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 inquired | conj |
| 12 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 turned | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 discovered | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 discovered | nsubj |
| 15 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 nymph | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 nymph | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 nymph | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 nymph | det |
| 20 | nymph | nymph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 discovered | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 daughter | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 daughter | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 daughter | det |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nymph | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Berggeist | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Berggeist | det |
| 27 | Berggeist | Berggeist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 daughter | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hostile | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 hostile | advmod |
| 30 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 discovered | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 race | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 race | nmod:poss |
| 33 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hostile | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 goddess | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 goddess | cc |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 goddess | det |
| 37 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 goddess | compound |
| 38 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 dwelt | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 dwelt | cc |
| 41 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 inquired | conj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 lake | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 lake | det |
| 44 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 46 lake | amod |
| 45 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 lake | compound |
| 46 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dwelt | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | Romar | after the descent of Romar's beloved | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | Romar not said here | a river goddess | pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | discover | past | Romar | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | suspicion | a nymph and the daughter of the Berggeist | the daughter of the Berggeist conj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | dwell | past | Romar not said here | the neighbouring mountain lake | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Location | ||||
| 6 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | race | Romar | nom race «event 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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