Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 102
The _Wilde Jäger_[7] is out with his ghostly train, and _Tut-Ursel's_[8] howlings ring through the darkness.
Who acts: Wilde, Tut howlings · What happens: be, ring · To what, where: darkness
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wilde, Tut howlings), 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 | 3 Wilde | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Wilde | punct |
| 3 | Wilde | Wilde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 train | nsubj |
| 4 | Jäger | Jäger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wilde | flat |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 7 | punct |
| 6 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 7 7 | punct |
| 7 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Wilde | appos |
| 8 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 7 | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 train | cop |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 train | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 train | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 train | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ghostly | ghostly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 train | amod |
| 14 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ring | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ring | cc |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 Tut | punct |
| 18 | Tut | tut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 howlings | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ursel | punct |
| 20 | Ursel | Ursel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Tut | appos |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Ursel | case |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 8 | punct |
| 23 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 24 8 | punct |
| 24 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 Tut | appos |
| 25 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 24 8 | punct |
| 26 | howlings | howling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 ring | nsubj |
| 27 | ring | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 train | parataxis |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 30 darkness | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 darkness | det |
| 30 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ring | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 train | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Wilde | with tempest's ghostly train; tempest nmod:poss; out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ring | present | Tut howlings | the darkness | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through darkness=Location |
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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