Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 79
Merciless creditors threatened with seizure; entire ruin stared him in the face; he saw himself already in fancy with wife and children abandoned to bitter want.
Who acts: Merciless creditors, ruin · What happens: threaten, stare, see, abandon, want · To what, where: Merciless creditors, ruin, face, fancy, children
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 (Merciless creditors, ruin), 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 | Merciless | merciless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 creditors | amod |
| 2 | creditors | creditor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stared | nsubj |
| 3 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 creditors | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 seizure | case |
| 5 | seizure | seizure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threatened | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 stared | punct |
| 7 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ruin | amod |
| 8 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stared | nsubj |
| 9 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stared | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 face | det |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stared | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stared | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | already | already | ADV | _ | 20 fancy | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 fancy | case |
| 20 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 wife | case |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fancy | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 children | cc |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fancy | conj |
| 25 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 children | acl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 bitter | mark |
| 27 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 abandoned | xcomp |
| 28 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 abandoned | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | participle | Merciless creditors not said here | with seizure | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stare | past | Merciless creditors | ruin | the face | entire ruin nsubj | tree rules | ||
| 3 | see | past | ruin | ruin | fancy with wife and children | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | abandon | participle | children not said here | bitter property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | want | infinitive | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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