Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 92
The waves closed over him and drew him down into their shimmering bosom.
Who acts: waves · What happens: close, draw down, bosom · To what, where: waves, Conrad, shimmering bosom
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 (waves), 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 waves | det |
| 2 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 waves | acl |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 closed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drew | cc |
| 7 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 closed | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drew | obj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 drew | compound:prt |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 bosom | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 12 | shimmering | shimmering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bosom | compound |
| 13 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drew | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | participle | the waves not said here | over Conrad | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | draw down | past | Conrad | into waves's shimmering bosom result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Patient into bosom=Result | ||||
| 4 | bosom | waves = wave | nom bosom «state 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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