Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 34
I come and sit here when alone, where I can look out on the mountains, and read them and seek consolation, but find none.
Who acts: I · What happens: come, sit, look out, read, seek, find · To what, where: mountains, consolation, none
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 come | nsubj |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sit | cc |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 come | conj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sit | advmod |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 alone | advmod |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sit | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 look | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 look | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | aux |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sit | parataxis |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 look | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 mountains | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountains | det |
| 16 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 look | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 read | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 read | cc |
| 19 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | parataxis |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 read | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 seek | cc |
| 22 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 read | conj |
| 23 | consolation | consolation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seek | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 find | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 find | cc |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 come | conj |
| 27 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 26 find | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit | present | I not said here | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look out | can | I | the mountains | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | read | infinitive | mountains = mountain | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||||
| 5 | seek | infinitive | consolation | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consolation=Theme | |||||
| 6 | find | infinitive | I not said here | none | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic |
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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