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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 38

Like a tempest Satan threw himself on the despairing man, seized him with his claws, rose with him in the air, and tore him in pieces.

Who acts: Satan · What happens: throw, despair, seize, rise, tore · To what, where: Satan, air, pieces

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Satan), 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

casedetoblnsubjobjcasedetamodoblpunctconjobjcasenmod:possoblpunctconjcaseoblcasedetoblpunctccconjobjcaseoblpunctrootLikeADPaDETtempestNOUNSatanPROPNthrewVERBhimselfPRONonADPtheDETdespairingVERBmanNOUN,PUNCTseizedVERBhimPRONwithADPhisPRONclawsNOUN,PUNCTroseVERBwithADPhimPRONinADPtheDETairNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtoreVERBhimPRONinADPpiecesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1LikelikeADP_3 tempestcase
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 tempestdet
3tempesttempestNOUNNumber=Sing5 threwobl
4SatanSatanPROPNNumber=Sing5 threwnsubj
5threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes5 threwobj
7ononADP_10 mancase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 mandet
9despairingdespairVERBVerbForm=Ger10 manamod
10manmanNOUNNumber=Sing5 threwobl
11,,PUNCT_12 seizedpunct
12seizedseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 threwconj
13himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 seizedobj
14withwithADP_16 clawscase
15hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 clawsnmod:poss
16clawsclawNOUNNumber=Plur12 seizedobl
17,,PUNCT_18 rosepunct
18roseriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 seizedconj
19withwithADP_20 himcase
20himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 roseobl
21ininADP_23 aircase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 airdet
23airairNOUNNumber=Sing18 roseobl
24,,PUNCT_26 torepunct
25andandCCONJ_26 torecc
26toretoreVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 threwconj
27himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 toreobj
28ininADP_29 piecescase
29piecespieceNOUNNumber=Plur26 toreobl
30..PUNCT_5 threwpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1throwpastSatanSatanlike a tempest; on the despairing manvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on man=Destination
2despairgerundvn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3seizepastSatan not said hereSatanwith Satan's clawsvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4risepastSatan not said herethe airwith Satanvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location
5torepastSatan not said hereSatanpiecestree 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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