Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 82
After a pause she exclaimed, "My poor motherless Eva!--as she will be before this morning's sun goes down.
Who acts: Marshal · What happens: exclaim, be · To what, where: poor motherless Eva · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Marshal), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 pause | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pause | det |
| 3 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 5 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Eva | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Eva | punct |
| 8 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Eva | nmod:poss |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Eva | amod |
| 10 | motherless | motherless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Eva | amod |
| 11 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 Eva | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 goes | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 goes | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 goes | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 goes | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 goes | cop |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 goes | mark |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 morning | det |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sun | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 morning | case |
| 22 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 goes | nsubj |
| 23 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 exclaimed | conj |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 goes | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Marshal | My poor motherless Eva | after a pause | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent eva=Topic | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | future | Marshal | this morning's sun nsubj; down, go property | tree rules |
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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