Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 165
A plank crosses over a black piece of water from the outer portion of the cave further into the darkness, far from human help and human voices.
Who acts: plank · What happens: cross · To what, where: black piece
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plank), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 plank | det |
| 2 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crosses | nsubj |
| 3 | crosses | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 piece | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 piece | det |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 piece | amod |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crosses | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 portion | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 portion | det |
| 12 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 portion | amod |
| 13 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crosses | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 cave | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cave | det |
| 16 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 portion | nmod |
| 17 | further | further | ADV | _ | 20 darkness | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 darkness | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 darkness | det |
| 20 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crosses | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 help | punct |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 help | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 help | case |
| 24 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 help | amod |
| 25 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crosses | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 voices | cc |
| 27 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 voices | amod |
| 28 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 help | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crosses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | present | a plank | a black piece of water | from the outer portion of the cave; into the darkness; human help and human voices parataxis | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over piece=Initial_Location from portion=Destination |
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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