Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 57
Dying, he stretches forth his hands in pain, and cries after the retreating knight, "Ride on, ride till the judgment day; ride every night through the forests, till thy horse sinks exhausted under thee, and may no pious one meet thee, but only the foul fiend of perdition!"
Who acts: hermit, horse · What happens: die, stretch, cry, retreat, ride on, ride · To what, where: hands, ride, forests, thee · 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 (hermit, horse), 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 | Dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stretches | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dying | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stretches | nsubj |
| 4 | stretches | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 stretches | advmod |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hands | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stretches | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pain | case |
| 9 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretches | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cries | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cries | cc |
| 12 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stretches | conj |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 knight | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 knight | det |
| 15 | retreating | retreat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 knight | amod |
| 16 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cries | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ride | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ride | punct |
| 19 | Ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 cries | parataxis |
| 20 | on | on | ADV | _ | 19 Ride | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ride | punct |
| 22 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Ride | obl |
| 23 | till | till | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 day | det |
| 25 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 day | compound |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ride | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 ride | punct |
| 28 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 Ride | parataxis |
| 29 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 night | det |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ride | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | through | through | ADP | _ | 33 forests | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 forests | det |
| 33 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 ride | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 sinks | punct |
| 35 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 38 sinks | mark |
| 36 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 horse | nmod:poss |
| 37 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sinks | nsubj |
| 38 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 ride | parataxis |
| 39 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 sinks | xcomp |
| 40 | under | under | ADP | _ | 41 thee | case |
| 41 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 exhausted | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 thee | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 thee | cc |
| 44 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 thee | aux |
| 45 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 48 meet | det |
| 46 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 meet | amod |
| 47 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 meet | compound |
| 48 | meet | meet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 thee | nsubj |
| 49 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 stretches | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 fiend | punct |
| 51 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 55 fiend | cc |
| 52 | only | only | ADV | _ | 55 fiend | advmod |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 fiend | det |
| 54 | foul | foul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 fiend | amod |
| 55 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 thee | appos |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 perdition | case |
| 57 | perdition | perdition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 fiend | nmod |
| 58 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 55 fiend | punct |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 55 fiend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | gerund | hermit not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | stretch | present | hermit | hermit's hands | in pain; thee no pious one meet obl; forth property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Patient in pain=Topic | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | present | hermit not said here | after the retreating knight | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | retreat | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 5 | ride on in a quote | infinitive | ride till the judgment day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | ride in a quote | infinitive | the forests | night | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through forest=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | sink in a quote | present | thy horse | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | exhaust in a quote | participle | thy horse not said here | thee | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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