Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 59
They laid him in the still vault, but he cannot enjoy the peace of the grave.
Who acts: knights, horse · What happens: lay, not enjoy, pacify · To what, where: horse, vault, peace, grave
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 (knights, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laid | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 vault | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vault | det |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 vault | advmod |
| 7 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 enjoy | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 enjoy | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 enjoy | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 enjoy | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 enjoy | advmod |
| 13 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 laid | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 peace | det |
| 15 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 enjoy | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 grave | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grave | det |
| 18 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 peace | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | knights = knight | horse | the vault | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in vault=Destination | |||
| 2 | not enjoy | can | horse | the peace of the grave | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peace=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pacify | the grave | nom peace «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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