Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 6
The most hideous brood of nature was flocked together, and swarmed around the feet of the three men entering, as if to form a wall to hinder their entrance.
Who acts: three men · What happens: flock together, swarm, enter, form, hinder · To what, where: hideous brood, feet, wall, entrance
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 (three men), 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 | 4 brood | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 hideous | advmod |
| 3 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brood | amod |
| 4 | brood | brood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flocked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 nature | case |
| 6 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brood | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flocked | aux:pass |
| 8 | flocked | flock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 flocked | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swarmed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swarmed | cc |
| 12 | swarmed | swarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 flocked | conj |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 feet | det |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 swarmed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 men | det |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 men | nummod |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 feet | nmod |
| 20 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 men | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 form | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 form | mark |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 form | mark |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 form | mark |
| 25 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 swarmed | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 wall | det |
| 27 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 form | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 hinder | mark |
| 29 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wall | acl |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 entrance | nmod:poss |
| 31 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hinder | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flock together | past · passive | the hideous brood of nature | together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swarm | participle | the feet of the three men | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around foot=Location | |||||
| 3 | enter | gerund | the three men not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | form a condition, not said to happen | to-infinitive | a wall | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wall=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hinder | to-infinitive | men's entrance | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer entrance=Eventuality |
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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