Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 55
Punish the old bird of ill omen!" he cried in a fury, and rode away.
Who acts: you, rage · What happens: punish, cry, ride away · To what, where: old bird, fury · 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 (you, rage), 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 | Punish | punish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bird | amod |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Punish | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 omen | case |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 omen | amod |
| 7 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bird | nmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Punish | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Punish | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Punish | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 fury | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fury | det |
| 14 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rode | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rode | cc |
| 17 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 rode | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Punish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | imperative | you not said here | the old bird of ill omen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | rage | a fury | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fury=Location | ||||
| 3 | ride away in a quote | past | rage not said here | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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