Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 80
He took a walk into the country in order to seek relief for his oppressed heart for a few short hours.
Who acts: ruin · What happens: take, seek, oppress · To what, where: walk, country, relief
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 walk | det |
| 4 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 order | case |
| 9 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 seek | mark |
| 11 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | advcl |
| 12 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seek | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 heart | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | oppressed | oppress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 heart | amod |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seek | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 hours | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hours | det |
| 19 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hours | amod |
| 20 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hours | amod |
| 21 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seek | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | ruin | a walk | the country | in order | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent walk=Theme into country=Destination | ||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | ruin not said here | relief | hour | for ruin's oppressed heart | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent relief=Location for heart=Theme | ||
| 3 | oppress | participle | tree 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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