Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 46
I never look upon it without a throb of bitter anguish. '
Who acts: I, bitter anguish · What happens: not look, throb
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, bitter anguish), 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 | 3 look | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 look | advmod |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 look | obl |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 throb | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 throb | det |
| 8 | throb | throb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 anguish | case |
| 10 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 anguish | amod |
| 11 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 throb | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | present | I | upon flight; without a throb of bitter anguish | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throb | bitter anguish | nom throb «state intransitive»: of=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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