Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 93
Why dost thou sit so lonely on the declivity of the mountain, innocent daughter of the Felsenburg?
Who acts: you · What happens: do, sit · To what, where: thou, lonely
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), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 dost | advmod |
| 2 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sit | advcl |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 dost | obj |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 lonely | advmod |
| 6 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sit | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 declivity | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 declivity | det |
| 9 | declivity | declivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lonely | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mountain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountain | det |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 declivity | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 daughter | punct |
| 14 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 daughter | amod |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 declivity | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Felsenburg | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Felsenburg | det |
| 18 | Felsenburg | Felsenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | you not said here | thou | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sit | imperative | you not said here | lonely on the declivity of the mountain and innocent daughter of the Felsenburg | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lonely=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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