Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 28
A long time had passed, and Romar slept one day under an oak near Ruma, who held a lovely boy in her arms.
Who acts: long time, Romar, oak · What happens: pass, sleep, hold · To what, where: oak, lovely boy, arms
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 (long time, Romar, oak), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 slept | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 slept | cc |
| 8 | Romar | Romar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 slept | nsubj |
| 9 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 day | nummod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slept | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 oak | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 oak | det |
| 14 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slept | obl |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 Ruma | case |
| 16 | Ruma | Ruma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 oak | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 held | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 held | nsubj |
| 19 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 oak | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 boy | det |
| 21 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 boy | amod |
| 22 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 held | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 arms | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 arms | nmod:poss |
| 25 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 boy | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect | a long time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sleep | past | Romar | a oak near Ruma | day | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | hold | past | a oak near Ruma | a lovely boy | suspicion's arms | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent boy=Theme in arm=Location |
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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