Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 63
Unsettled and a fugitive like Cain, he wandered the whole night in the forest, and when the morning dawned he had made his decision.
Who acts: anger, morning · What happens: unsettle, wander, dawn, make, decide · To what, where: forest, decision
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 (anger, morning), 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 | Unsettled | unsettle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wandered | advcl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fugitive | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fugitive | det |
| 4 | fugitive | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Unsettled | conj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 Cain | case |
| 6 | Cain | Cain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fugitive | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unsettled | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wandered | nsubj |
| 9 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 night | amod |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wandered | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wandered | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dawned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dawned | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 dawned | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 morning | det |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dawned | nsubj |
| 21 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wandered | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 made | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 made | aux |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 dawned | ccomp |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 decision | nmod:poss |
| 26 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unsettle | participle | anger not said here | a fugitive like Cain conj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | wander | past | anger | the forest | night | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | dawn | past | the morning | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect | anger | anger's decision | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decision=Product | ||||
| 5 | decide | anger | nom decision «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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