Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 36
Banished into the earth, shut up in a cave, the entrance guarded by malicious cobolds, the wretched Ruma sought to reach Romar, and a succession of cavings in proves her efforts to set herself free; but her watchful father always thrust her back into the depths of the earth.
Who acts: wretched Ruma, cavings, watchful father · What happens: banish, shut up, guard, seek, reach, prove · To what, where: succession, earth, cave, entrance, Romar, efforts
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 (wretched Ruma, cavings, watchful father), 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 | Banished | banish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 earth | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 earth | det |
| 4 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Banished | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shut | punct |
| 6 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 earth | acl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 shut | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cave | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cave | det |
| 10 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shut | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 entrance | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 entrance | det |
| 13 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cave | conj |
| 14 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 entrance | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 cobolds | case |
| 16 | malicious | malicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cobolds | amod |
| 17 | cobolds | cobold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 guarded | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sought | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Ruma | det |
| 20 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Ruma | amod |
| 21 | Ruma | Ruma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sought | nsubj |
| 22 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cave | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 reach | mark |
| 24 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sought | xcomp |
| 25 | Romar | Romar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 reach | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 succession | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 succession | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 succession | det |
| 29 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Banished | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 cavings | case |
| 31 | cavings | caving | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 succession | nmod |
| 32 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 33 proves | mark |
| 33 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 cavings | acl:relcl |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 35 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 proves | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 set | mark |
| 37 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 proves | advcl |
| 38 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 set | obj |
| 39 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 set | xcomp |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 thrust | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 thrust | cc |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 father | nmod:poss |
| 43 | watchful | watchful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 father | amod |
| 44 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 thrust | nsubj |
| 45 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 46 thrust | advmod |
| 46 | thrust | thrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Banished | conj |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 thrust | obj |
| 48 | back | back | ADV | _ | 46 thrust | advmod |
| 49 | into | into | ADP | _ | 51 depths | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 depths | det |
| 51 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 thrust | obl |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 earth | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 earth | det |
| 54 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 depths | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Banished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | banish | participle | a succession of cavings | the earth | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shut up | participle | the earth not said here | a cave and the entrance | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | guard | participle | the entrance not said here | by malicious cobolds | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | seek | past | the wretched Ruma | a cave and the entrance not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | reach not said to happen | to-infinitive | the wretched Ruma not said here | Romar | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent romar=Theme | ||||
| 6 | prove | present | cavings not said here | cave's efforts | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Theme | ||||
| 7 | set | to-infinitive | cavings not said here | cave | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient herself=Result | |||
| 8 | thrust back | past | cave's watchful father | cave | the depths of the earth | always property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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