Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 129
Every day they went with the dawn to the spot where the brothers lay in their deep slumber, and night found them still there in tears.
Who acts: rivals, brothers, night · What happens: go, lay, find, slumber · To what, where: spot, deep slumber, rivals, tears
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., 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 (rivals, brothers, night), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 dawn | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dawn | det |
| 7 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 spot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spot | det |
| 10 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 lay | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brothers | det |
| 13 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 spot | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 slumber | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 slumber | nmod:poss |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 slumber | amod |
| 18 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 found | cc |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | obj |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 there | advmod |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 found | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 tears | case |
| 27 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 found | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | rivals = rival | the spot | dawn; day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | lay | present | the brothers | rivals's deep slumber | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in slumber=Destination | ||||
| 3 | find | past | night | rivals = rival | tears; there | still | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||
| 4 | slumber | rivals = rival | nom slumber «state intransitive»: 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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