Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 54
His heart beating high with joy, he went to meet his master, and found him sitting on a stone resting from the fatigue of his long walk.
Who acts: heart, Stolberg · What happens: beat, go, meet, find, sit, rest · To what, where: master, Stolberg, stone, fatigue, long walk
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 (heart, Stolberg), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 3 | beating | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 heart | acl |
| 4 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 beating | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 joy | case |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beating | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 heart | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 meet | mark |
| 11 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | xcomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 meet | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | obj |
| 18 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 found | xcomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 stone | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stone | det |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sitting | obl |
| 22 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 sitting | advcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 fatigue | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fatigue | det |
| 25 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 resting | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 walk | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 walk | nmod:poss |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 walk | amod |
| 29 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fatigue | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | gerund | Stolberg's heart not said here | with joy; high property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Stolberg's heart | Stolberg nsubj | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | Stolberg's heart not said here | Stolberg's master | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Stolberg's heart not said here | Stolberg | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sit | gerund | Stolberg not said here | a stone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location | ||||
| 6 | rest | gerund | Stolberg not said here | the fatigue of Stolberg's long walk | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fatigue | Stolberg's long walk | nom fatigue «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | walk | Stolberg | nom walk «act 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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