Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 14
She neither wept nor complained, but met her destined bridegroom with a solemn dignity.
Who acts: Brunhilda · What happens: weep, complain, meet, destine · To what, where: destined bridegroom
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 (Brunhilda), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 3 wept | advmod |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 complained | cc |
| 5 | complained | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 met | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 met | cc |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bridegroom | amod |
| 11 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 dignity | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dignity | det |
| 14 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dignity | amod |
| 15 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Brunhilda | neither property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | complain speech: other | past | Brunhilda not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | meet | past | Brunhilda not said here | Brunhilda's destined bridegroom | with a solemn dignity | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Theme with dignity=Instrument | |||
| 4 | destine | participle | 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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