Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 91
The speaker exhausted, sank into a peaceful slumber, and when the setting sun illuminated the chamber, its golden beams fell upon the face of death.
Who acts: speaker, setting sun, golden beams, sun · What happens: exhaust, sink, illuminate, fall, beam · To what, where: peaceful slumber, chamber, face
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 (speaker, setting sun, golden beams, sun), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 speaker | det |
| 2 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 exhausted | nsubj |
| 3 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sank | punct |
| 5 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 exhausted | conj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 slumber | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 slumber | det |
| 8 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 slumber | amod |
| 9 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sank | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 illuminated | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 illuminated | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 illuminated | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sun | det |
| 14 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sun | compound |
| 15 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 illuminated | nsubj |
| 16 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 exhausted | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chamber | det |
| 18 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 illuminated | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 beams | nmod:poss |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beams | amod |
| 22 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 illuminated | conj |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 face | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 face | det |
| 26 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 death | case |
| 28 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 face | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 exhausted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhaust | past | the speaker | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | sink | past | the speaker not said here | a peaceful slumber | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | illuminate | past | the setting sun | the chamber | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=Destination | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | sun's golden beams | the face of death | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon face=Location | ||||
| 5 | beam | sun | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=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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